Seems like Ubuntu dev folks decided to change some functionality of the Ctrl-c shortcut so now it is copy function instead of break.

Anyway there is a bug open here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/402973

My install is ( lsb_release -a ):

Description:    Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:        9.10

uname -a ( date and time stripped )

Linux psy-srv 2.6.31-3-generic-pae #19-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux

Its Alpha 3 of Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server release.

Report the annonying bug !

ESXi Commands

You can access the CLI by switching to terminal 1 using Alt-F1.
Now type “unsupported”, This is not echoed so you won’t see anything. If you get it right, you will get a prompt asking for the root pasword.

( This might not work in ESXi 4.0 as VMWare is trying to limit ESXi for their own corporate reasons )

That drops you at a shell prompt. (ash is our shell).
Hint: editor = vi

Now you can you modify /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the ssh line so that you can ssh into it unless you are planning always being at the console.
Reboot (init 6)

Cloning Virtual machines in ESXi

vmkfs tools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore/YourVM/YourVM.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore/NewVM/newvm.vmdk

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.reset xx

check out these ( with vim-cmd vmsvc/command ):

power.off
power.on
power.reboot
power.reset
power.shutdown
power.suspend

esxtop = is your top tool

Something you probably have to do now and then is to find the biggest files in directory to delete / destroy / eliminate or explode the damn space wasters. Here is one of the ways to find it:

ls -lSrh

The “r” switch will cause all the large files to be listed at the end and the “h”switch will make your life easier and will show you human readable data (MB etc..). You could also search for the biggest AVIs for example:

ls -lSrh *.avi

You can also check what are the largest directories with this one:

du -kx | egrep -v "\./.+/" | sort -n