Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all...  realizing this is a bit OT but i have to deal with this old fedora core 2 machine - making file system, slices, etc...  what would be the equivalent utility of sysinstall on fedora? Does

Re: sysinstall on fedora?

2010-02-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: thanks..  i'm not going to use it. i have a remote access and just need to mount a usb drive (through a scsi interface?!?!) attached to it so i can copy over some stuff. i was done with redhat when they went enterprise and started

Re: Microsoft Dynamic DNS

2009-09-20 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: I'm pretty sure DDNS is an RFC, I'm sure FBSD supports it.  WINS is different altogether. Yes, you are right. I learnt something new here :) So, I believe this is what we are looking at:- send { [option declaration] [,

Re: Microsoft Dynamic DNS

2009-09-19 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:36 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: My Windows laptop for instance, may get different IP addresses using DHCP depending on what physical location I connect it in. but it's always the same DNS name. Can anyone sugest where to look for information as to how this works,

Re: proftpd TLS

2009-05-19 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: i start it as a root, but it switchs to non-root nobody 52346  0.0  0.1 11820  4208  ??  SsJ  Sun06PM   0:00.66 proftpd: (accepting connections) (proftpd) Check the value for 'user' in proftpd.conf. It will be nobody. Change it

Re: Console mode scrolling

2009-04-17 Thread Mehul Ved
2009/4/17 Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com: Hi, Is there a way to scroll the screen in console mode? Something like I do in Linux with Ctrl + Page Up? If you search the archives, you will find the answer in there. You need to enable the scroll lock to be able to scroll. --

Re: SORRY. NO SPACE IN lost+found DIRECTORY

2009-04-16 Thread Mehul Ved
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Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: For testing purposes I've used Suns VirtualBox under Windows, it runs under Linux as well. (Free)BSD installs well and it can give you a first impression on how it works. There are some settings that you must keep in mind,

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: What worked for me was enabling VT-x/AMD-V in Virtualbox. No more panics since. If I am correct, that requires hardware with virtualisation support. That's not the case with my old P4. -- Am I SHOPLIFTING?

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler br...@yoafrica.com wrote: As long as you have enough ram ( I'd say at least a gig) try VMware Server 1.1/2.0. I have production machines (including two freebsd 7.1 vm's) running on a VMware Server 2.0 working very well with the host having

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I don't know what Ubuntu does. What ubuntu does is 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition 4) Use windows bootloader

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote: No affence here but if you want to just click, click, next, finish, stick to mtfk ubuntu we dnt need u No offence. But please read before sending the email. -- Twenty Percent of Zero is Better

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly what dir on / is using up all the space so i

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: Thanks that gave me what i needed .. now i goto figure out what i can del an what not to .. never had a prob with / filling up before *g* enterprise# du -h -d 1 / 537G    /usr 538G    / Pretty easy to figure out

Re: Regarding DVD/CD request

2009-02-28 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN ramanvenkatam...@gmail.com wrote: Sir/Madam,                     I am a student studying in an Indian  University.I recently heard of  FREE BSD Operating system.To have a try on the Operating system I tried to download it.But,I

Re: Command line video player

2009-02-24 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Why can't you install FreeBSD on any other PC? Because all the other PC's are in use in the office. This is one older one we managed to pull out of the junk, which was actually in working condition. -- This door is

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote: The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 snip I doubt you'll find anything suitable after

Command line video player

2009-02-21 Thread Mehul Ved
Hi, I am setting up a P1 90MHz machine for some light multimedia playback for a friend. As of now, it is running on FreeBSD 5.5. We have been able to play mp3's using mpd and it's doing well till now. Next, I am looking for a video player. But, I have following problems while proceeding : 1)

Re: Command line video player

2009-02-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:45 AM, nawcom naw...@nawcom.com wrote: if you compile it yourself, you just need to include what you want supported. And compiling those codec libraries or whatever won't take up too much disk space either. That's my suggestion to this situation you have. Compile

Re: Command line video player

2009-02-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: install FreeBSD 7 How do I upgrade to FreeBSD 7? Use ports? -- Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! -- G.B. Shaw ___

Re: Command line video player

2009-02-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: you may just do reinstall. I guess that's what I will ask someone to do since I won't be there till next Saturday. if you fell a bit more advanced you may try the following: 1) replace kernel with generic

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: You are looking for graphics/ImageMagick. This provides a 'convert' command that does lots of image file manipulations. Thanks. Don't know how I managed to miss it before. Also gd(http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page)? -- If

Re: mounting Nokia N95

2009-01-23 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: is there any utility or pkg in freebsd that will allow me to browse my nokia N95 files? i have quite a substantial amount of files i wish to backup, if nothing else the pictures. What about obexftp? -- Today is a

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:31 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this? I'd like something better than just letting Apache display the

Re: restricted users

2008-09-12 Thread Mehul Ved
On 9/12/08, Don Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to set up an account for my boy that he can use freely with the exception that I can turn off his Internet access at will from my root-privilege account. It would be nice if I could also set up a limited-access constraint that would

Re: postgres: [2-1] FATAL: the database is starting up

2008-08-14 Thread Mehul Ved
On 8/14/08, fire jotawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 14 16:09:53 makham postgres[1221]: [1-1] WARNING: autovacuum not started because of misconfiguration Aug 14 16:09:53 makham postgres[1221]: [1-2] HINT: Enable options stats_start_collector and stats_row_level. You can try enabling those

Re: mplayer-problems

2008-03-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:14:06PM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: In the terminal [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/user]$ mplayer -vo xv dvd://3 -dvd-device /dev/acd0 MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz (Family: 6, Model: 11,

Re: mplayer-problems

2008-03-22 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:06:22PM +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: Now the video plays but the output looks scrambled and mplayer tells me that my machine is too slow. But even on a P3 1 GHz DVDs should run???especially when DivX and co can be decoded w/out any problems. Any ideas? Is the

Re: Suggestions for OS to use behind freebsd pf firewalls.

2008-03-01 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I haven't done a linux install since before FreeBSD 2.2 IIRC and have no idea which version would be the most versatile and has an installer that is basically brain dead simple with most all drivers. I

Re: Squid3.0 missing something with pf transparent proxy.

2008-02-02 Thread Mehul Ved
On 2/2/08, eculp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I use the pf redirect it seems to not get the url parsing right for some reason. I put http://www.google.com and see 1201906217.304 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400 1809 GET /google.com/ - NONE/- text/html 1201906217.466 0 172.16.0.14 NONE/400

sound doesn't work randomly

2008-01-06 Thread Mehul Ved
Hi, I have a Via8233 onboard sound card. After reading a few docs and installing oss, I got sound to work but the problem is that it works sometimes and just doesn't work other times. This only happens with FreeBSD, with linux it's working fine all the time so I believe I can rule out hardware