I'm trying to connect to a Cisco VPN using an USB-tethered connection using OpenVPN. The moment I enable Cisco AnyConnect, traffic stops on OpenVPN interface, resulting in disconnection.
OS is Windows 7 64-bit.
I've got to install a few machines with grub legacy on them due to issues with symantec ghost (ghost is a requirement that can't be dropped). i've got a script that prepares machines, but there's a slight problem: apt-get purge grub-pc comes up with a dialog window that ignores -y --force-yes. how can i get rid of it?
edit: the debconf template is grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub. --force-confdef doesn't help.
I've got a simple problem with RabbitMQ on debian testing. The service works fine and I'm happy with it, but when it upgrades, it loses all it's exchanges, queues and, most importantly, permissions. Is there a way to migrate users and permissions across major version upgrades? I've googled quite a lot, but can't find anything.
I've got quite a few machines which sometimes need to be restored from an image. There's a slight problem that those machines are at different locations, don't have keyboards and sometimes don't even have displays next to them, so it's required that the recovery is done in a completely unattended way.
Some details: the machines are not servers. They have AMT, but nothing more. I've read that Ghost has something called LightsOut, but it requires installation on the boxes, which is out of question.
My ideal solution would a piece of software that could make an image of a whole disk (the disks are the same everywhere; there are multiple partitions, but layout is also the same on all boxes) and make a bootable recovery iso suitable for booting from USB flash drive which doesn't ask any questions apart from "remove the recovery disk and reboot me please". The idea is that non-technical personell should be able to perform the recovery with only remote assistance from the tech people - AMT will be of help here.
I've been toying with the idea of adapting SystemRescueCD - boot, ssh, restore disk - but I'd much prefer a complete, existing solution. Is there something that does what I want?