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Oracle Linux – Unfinished DB8actions remaining

I have been recently facing following error when using yum/dnf: There are unfinished DB8actions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-DB8action, or "yum-complete-DB8action --cleanup-only" and "yum history redo last", first to finish them. If those don't work you'll have to try(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible – How to keep all your environments consistent ?

Your may want to patch your Linux servers on a regular basis (e.g using “yum/dnf update”). As always, it’s obviously recommended to : 1) Patch the TEST systems 2) Check if there is no side effects 3) Wait(…)

Automating Linux patching with Ansible

Since the beginning of the year, several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux Kernel as well as in others important and widely-used packages. Among them, there was the famous CVE-2021-3156 affecting the sudo package and allowing(…)

Attaching your own CentOS 7 yum repository to AWS SSM

From some blogs I've written in the past you might already know that we are using AWS SSM to patch and maintain the complete EC2 and onprem instances at one of our customers. The previous posts(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Application Streams

You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming(…)