W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B

Try to add the key from keyserver specifying the key id and you should be ok

~# gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key  9AA38DCD55BE302B
~# gpg -a --export 9AA38DCD55BE302B | apt-key add -

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″
are supported and installed on your system.

or like this:

manconv: can’t set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

The issue was fixed using this method,  reinstalling and regenerating the locales on the system, to avoid dependencies I used the following packages as a “bridge”:

~# apt-get install belocs-locales-bin belocs-locales-data
~# locale-gen
~# dpkg-reconfigure locales

After issuing the command dpkg-reconfigure locales select the locales you need from the list and you should be done.

Unable to make a vsock module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting ‘/tmp/vmware-config1/vsock.o’: -1 Unknown symbol in module

What you need to do is the following:

untar vmci.tar (in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source)
build the module with ‘make’
untar vsock.tar and copy the “Modules.symvers” file resulting from the previous compilation into the “vsock-only” directory.
Rebuild the vsock.tar file and run “vmware-config.pl”.

Speaking in bash language:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
tar xvfp vmci.tar
tar xvfp vsock.tar
cd vmci-only/
make
cp -av Module.symvers ../vsock-only/
cd ..
tar -f vsock.tar -cv vsock-only/
vmware-config.pl

Now it should compile just fine.

Thanks to Javier, I got this solution from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/208316

Upgrading from previous versions to the 2.7.1 version, we got strange random errors, some kind of random “hang on” in the wpmu blogs network.

After digging for a while, we found this bug:

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8590

The problem totally went away installing php5-curl package, on my debian servers:

apt-get install php5-curl ;/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Hope this can help

1. Install some graphical tool for collection of bandwidth data in your server (like Cacti, Munin, Zabbix ecc.)
2. After some time (the longer the better, for statistical purposes) take the average bandwidth consumption, often given in kbps (Kilo Bytes per Second)
3. Convert kbps in GB per month and this where this post become useful :)

So to convert kbps in GB/Month we can simply obtain a constant from the following logic steps:

• 1kbps = 1KiloBitperSecond
• 1KiloBitperHour = 3600 kbps
• 1KiloBitperDay = 3600*24 kbps
• 1KiloBitperMonth = 3600*24*30 kbps
• 1Bit = 1Byte/8
• 1Kilo = 1Giga/1.000.000

So the constant will be 3600*24*30/8/1.000.000 = 0.324

For example 150kbps of bandwidth will generate 150*0.324=48.6GB per month traffic

or conversely, for example 80GB per Month will be 80/0.324 = 246.91 kbps on average throughtput

Therefore the constant is 0.324 and as a rule of thumb you can remember 0.3 or one/third ;)

cat backupfile.tgz | gpg -c --cipher-algo=BLOWFISH > backupfile.tgz.gpg

(you’ll be asked for the Passphrase to use for encryption)
and for decryption:

cat backupfile.tgz.gpg |gpg -d --cipher-algo=BLOWFISH > backupfile.tgz

(you’ll be obviously asked for the Passphrase again, don’t forget it and save it in a safe place!)

To use it inside a script (batch process) the useful --passphrase switch
can be employed:

cat backupfile.tgz | gpg -c –cipher-algo=BLOWFISH --passphrase abcdefghi1234567890 > backupfile.tgz.gpg

in this case, do not forget to set 700 the file for avoiding unwanted reading…

~# for i in `mailq|grep '@' |awk {'print $1'}|grep -v '@'`; do postsuper -d $i ; done

Thomas Sewell from coolsewell.com contributed with this helpful notes:

you could also just do:

postsuper -d ALL

to clear all mail queues or even

postsuper -d ALL deferred

to just get rid of deferred mail from the queue.

Thanks Thomas! :)

There are many methods to backup your data on the fly, using rsync via ssh is one for example, but this post is about using netcat for a quick solution.

Listening side, where the backup data will be stored, or destination:

~# mkdir /whatever_the_name_of_your_backup_dir
~# cd !$
~# netcat -l -p 12345 | pv | tar xjf -

Sending side, where the original data are, or source:

~# cd /
~# tar cjf - --ignore-failed-read bin boot cdrom dev/ etc/ home/ initrd* lib/ root/ sbin/ usr/ var/ vmlinuz*  | pv | netcat -q 2 <YOUR_DESTINATION_IP> 12345

Don’t forget to create: /bin /media /mnt /opt /proc /selinux /srv /sys /tmp
and chmod 1777 /tmp
(This FHS is for a Debian Etch, please take care of different directories in your setup)

Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition makes it easy to experiment with cloud computing. Eucalyptus, an open source technology which is included in Ubuntu as a technology preview, enables you to use your own servers to deploy, experiment and test your own private cloud that matches the Amazon EC2 API. You can dynamically create virtual machines, configure multiple clusters into a single Cloud and even provide an EBS (elastic block storage) equivalent and an S3 compatible storage manager.

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