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On some distrubutions /etc/motd is a symlink to a file that gets overwritten at reboot, so changing it will not be persistant. Remove the symlink and create a new motd file in it's place, or put whatever information you want to display in motd.tail

If you only want maven 3 you don't really need the deb package. Just download it from http://maven.apache.org/download.html , extract it (tar -xvf filename) and add add the bin folder to $PATH.

I haven't tested it on bubba, but I use webmin on another box.
http://www.webmin.com/

Have you restarted apache after you changed "AllowOverride"?

The B3 uses an ARM CPU and there are currently no TS3 binaries available for that architecture. If you want to run a similar service mumble is the go-to open source alternative to TS and Ventrilo afaik.

ddclient is written in perl and should work without problems: http://dyn.com/support/clients ...

Java isn't very fast on the Bubba|Two, but it's still possible to some extent. I made these notes two years ago, so I'm not entirely sure if they're up to speed anymore. They are also for the entire jdk and not just the jre:

I never got the sun jvm to work, but had success with IBMs. I downloaded ...

Once you delete a file, it's removed and the space is free, however...

Sometimes you want to delete a file that is in use. On windows you're simply not allowed, on Linux the file is deleted but the space is not reclaimed until all filehandles are closed. This is most often seen when deleting log ...

Network configuration is stored in /etc/network/interfaces (dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf)
If you can see the interface that no longer uses dhcp there you can comment it out with # and change it to

iface XYZ inet dhcp
where XYZ is the name of the interface. (probably eth0 or eth1)

Restart ...

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the bubba entry in sites-available is just a symlink to /usr/share/bubba-frontend/apache.site, recreating it (ln -s <target> <link>) should have been enough.

The line above, 185, includes the load files. Check for those as well in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled

I would try to start apache (apache2ctl ...

Not really an answer but more in the all information category, I usually just open multiple ssh sessions (Using Putty from the windows machine).

I think they are listed in order (primary is the first one in the list.)

Failing that you could always use google public dns;
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

I've never played around with iptables, but this seems pretty informative:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo

Is there any way i can set a general permission for all the folders inside a folder?
chmod -R <permission flag> <foldername>

if you want to delete a folder and all it's content (disclaimer: be sure you're deleting the right folder)
rm -rf <foldername>

Anyway what is shell login for the ...

Etch is no longer available at the debian ftp mirrors, but it is at the archives. A minor change in the sources list should do the trick:

http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2406#p11430