Category: Updates & Patches

Open your Plesk Administration interface at the usual https://:8443/ location. Login as the Administrator. Click the Modules link on the left.  If you do see an icon on the resulting screen labeled Firewall, click it to setup the firewall rules (skip to STEP 9). If you do not see Firewall you must follow the instructions below […]

If your Intel ethernet adapter is experiencing odd connectivity problems you can update the FreeBSD kernel module for your product to avoid some common problems. Generally this only applies to 1000Mbit/s or faster Intel ethernet adapters where the code is constantly being updated by the developers. The version of FreeBSD being used will determine which […]

If your Intel ethernet adapter is experiencing odd connectivity problems you can update the Linux kernel module for your product to avoid some common problems. Generally this only applies to 1000Mbit/s or faster Intel ethernet adapters where the code is constantly being updated by the developers. In this example the ethernet card is an Intel […]

To set YUM to update automatically in RedHat linux distributions, execute the set of commands as follows: # yum update -y# yum install yum-cron# chkconfig yum-cron on These commands will download any current updates for your OS, install an application named “yum-cron” and set it to load when the machine is booted. Now your system will […]

If you cannot update your OS via YUM, there are some common problems that exist across all Red Hat based operating systems. Here are some of the problems and their fixes.   “Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.” or“Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit…” This error […]

First login to your Fedora server as root. Execute the command “yum update -y” and you should see output similar to the following:   # yum update -yLoaded plugins: fastestmirrorDetermining fastest mirrors * base: mirrors.kernel.org * updates: mirrors.cmich.edu * addons: mirror.stanford.edu * extras: mirrors.usc.edubase                                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00     primary.xml.gz                                           | 878 kB     00:00     base                                                           2508/2508updates                                                  […]

To update your FreeBSD ports tree and security patches to the latest available in your release use the following commands. # freebsd-update fetch install# portsnap fetch# portsnap extract# portsnap update Your ports tree and security patches are now updated. If problems are encountered when attempting to update FreeBSD please log into myCP and open a […]

Legacy versions of Fedora Core are no longer supported due to reaching the end of their life cycles. Known legacy versions are Fedora Core 1 through 26. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer version of Fedora or reinstall  a currently supported version of CentOS or RHEL instead as the EOL (End […]

A tool named “cron-apt” is available for Debian to automatically upgrade packages at a given interval. By default it will only update the package list and download new packages without installing them onto your system. You will need to install the software and configure it using these directions. First install “cron-apt” with the command “apt-get […]

First decide which version of Debian you wish to upgrade to. The versions of Debian currently supported are as follows: Version Code name Release date End of life date   9.0   Stretch June 17th 2017 approx. 2022 (LTS)   8.0   Jessie April 25th 2015 ~June 6th 2020 (LTS)   7.0   Wheezy May 4th […]