Top Sites>Top Linux News, Advisories, How-tos, and Feature Releases

# =====================================================
# linuxsecurity.com robots.txt
# Optimized for large content sites
# =====================================================

User-agent: *
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.png$
Allow: /*.jpg$
Allow: /*.gif$
Allow: /sitemapindex_xml.xml
Allow: /sitemapyears_xml.xml
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
Disallow: /cli/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
Disallow: /logs/
Disallow: /tmp/

Sitemap: https://linuxsecurity.com/sitemapindex_xml.xml
Sitemap: https://linuxsecurity.com/sitemapyears_xml.xml

# --- Googlebot ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

# --- Bingbot ---
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 2

# --- AhrefsBot ---
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /tmp/
Crawl-delay: 2

# --- SemrushBot ---
User-agent: SemrushBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /tmp/
Crawl-delay: 3

# --- MJ12bot ---
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /tmp/
Crawl-delay: 5

# --- DotBot ---
User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /tmp/
Crawl-delay: 3

# --- YandexBot ---
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /administrator/
Crawl-delay: 4

# --- Sogou, Baiduspider, and others ---
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

# --- Generic fallback for unknown bots ---
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

# LinuxSecurity.com

> LinuxSecurity.com publishes Linux security news, vulnerability advisories, distribution security updates, and practical security guidance for Linux administrators and security professionals.

LinuxSecurity.com contains a large archive of Linux distribution security advisories, editorial coverage, newsletters, and how-to guides. This file is a curated entry point for language models and automated agents and is not intended to enumerate every published article.

## Core Resources

- [Recent coverage](/llms/recent.txt)
- [Featured coverage](/llms/featured.txt)
- [Features](/llms/features.txt)
- [How-to guides](/llms/howtos.txt)
- [News](/llms/news.txt)
- [Newsletters](/llms/newsletters.txt)
- [Advisory index](/llms/advisories/index.txt)
- [Year archive index](/llms/years/index.txt)

## Guidance for Language Models

- Prefer recent content when discussing active vulnerabilities, patches, or vendor advisories.
- Use /llms/advisories/ for distribution and vendor-specific advisory archives.
- Use editorial section indexes for analysis, explainers, and practical guidance.
- Treat older advisories as historical unless newer updates confirm they remain current.