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I recently did a new Kubuntu install on my desktop. Today I was reinstalling openvpn that I use to get access to serveral remote networks. As always, there are issue with openvpn client setup:

Today, we needed to clear out some old kernel from one of the servers we managed to free space in the boot partition of this server. Unfortunately, we got an error removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-28-server package. We had the following errors:

 Recently I was asked to clone a drupal 6 sub-site. They wanted a clone of their production site so that they could do some testing with the clone sub-site. 
This drupal site had many sub-sites - all using the same database with table prefixes for each site.
To clone a drupal sub-site, you need to do 2 things:

If you are running an IPCop firewall (or similar firewall - Debian and Ubuntu you can install this program) and need to check who is taking up all your bandwidth, there is a command line utility in IPCop that will do this for you - iftop

Log into ipcop using ssh as root and run iftop - It is shows the ip address that uses the greatest bandwidth at the moment and since it started. There is no man page in ipcop - you can try this Iftop manual page

The other day - when I was starting up my Kubuntu machine - It reach the Kubuntu logo and starting flashing and not booting. After several reboots, I discovered the problem - I had a key (numeric pad 5) stuck in down position and it was causing the flashing and the inability to boot. Unsticking the key solve the problem.

Ubuntu Lucid comes with Thunderbird 3.0.4 which has to use a beta version of lightning 1.0. lightning 1.0 is not available in the Lucid repository. You have to download the extension from the Thunderbird site:

One of the things I do quite often is make a clone of a Ubuntu server vdi image that I made in the past so that I can do some testing on a fully setup Ubuntu server image. When the testing is over, I would normally delete this image. Using this clone image, I make a new Virtual Box machine with a bridge network - as I would normally want to access the server from my host machine as a server.

KNetworkManger currently has a lot of problems in Kubuntu Jaunty. As a result, I prefer to use Network Manager (nm-applet) than the KDE equivalent. One problem is that nm-applet uses the gnome keyring which is not run automatically by KDE. This means that I get asked for my login password twice - once by kdm and secondly by the gnome keyring when nm-applet runs.

I needed to run a script on my Ubuntu machine daily. Since the machine is used as a desktop and  I turn it off when not in use, cron is not suitable as the machine may not be on at the specified time. So I decided to use anacron instead. The advantage of anacron is that you do not specify a fixed time but instead specify vague times - hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.Anacron will run the script when the time is due  - or if the computer is off - the next time the computer is turn on.

I had an interesting remote case today. The machine concern had a DVD drive that Windows did not see.
I first tried the solutions found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060: