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Andrew Fletcher
Maintaining your Ubuntu server is essential to ensure it operates smoothly, stays secure, and benefits from the latest features. Whether you're managing a server for personal projects or enterprise-level applications, regularly updating your system is a critical best practice. Here’s a straightforward guide to updating your Ubuntu server effectively and efficiently, with a focus on the benefits of chaining commands.   Step 1: Update the package list Before applying updates, it's crucial to...
Andrew Fletcher
In today’s digital landscape, effective management of user accounts is pivotal...
Andrew Fletcher
Maintaining a Drupal site is usually smooth sailing once the environment is...
Andrew Fletcher
The current Nginx version running is 1.18.0.  It seems like the Nginx...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently, after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, we encountered a significant...
Andrew Fletcher
When Solr is displaying results on the site, first step is to log in the server and check its status ● solr.service - LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/solr; generated) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2024-04-17 23:22:52 UTC; 6h ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Apr 17 23:22:50 {name} systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Controls Apache Solr as a Service... Apr 17 23:22:51 {name} su[750]: (to solr) root on none Apr 17 23:22:51 {name}...
Andrew Fletcher
On a server directory with over 100,000 PDF files, I needed to verify the...
Andrew Fletcher
Managing files on a server often includes tasks like clearing logs or resetting...
Andrew Fletcher
To review the content of files being generated in the /tmp directory on an...
Andrew Fletcher
A growing list of commands I've used and what they do in no specific order sudo...
Andrew Fletcher
To resolve the CVE-2022-48624 vulnerability on Ubuntu using Nginx, it's crucial to understand that the issue lies within the "less" package, not Nginx itself. The vulnerability affects "less" before version 606, where close_altfile in filename.c in less omits shell_quote calls for LESSCLOSE, potentially allowing shell command injection. The current less version is 551, which is vulnerable. You'll need to upgrade "less" to a version at or beyond 606. CVE-2022-48624 close_altfile in filename.c in...
Andrew Fletcher
In many terminal text editors, you use find command as reference in Terminal...
Andrew Fletcher
In an environment that is running Ubuntu 20.02 Nginx Solr   The default...
Andrew Fletcher
You can perform the following steps: Check Apache Modules Apache Struts 2 is...
Andrew Fletcher
To use OpenAI to summarise text from a PDF using Python 3.11.6, you'll first...