Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host

2010-08-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 02:31:08PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > > Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live > > CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current > > system. Any objectives with this? Thx > > > > matthias > >

Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got "unsupported inode size" when trying to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. With FreeBSD through 7.2, I could mount, but got "Bad file descr

Free compilation album from legendary songsmith Billy Franks - With an introduction by best selling author, Christopher Brookmyre

2010-08-24 Thread Billy Franks
Hi, "Penning Classics and garnering praise from Bono, Peter Gabriel & Oasis" THE GUARDIAN "Songwriting from the top drawer" TIME OUT. "Imagine McCartney's craftsmanship and Springsteen's power and you'll get the gist" Q MAGAZINE As it seems I am only really know by famous novelists and rock

Re: running FreeBSD on Windows host

2010-08-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 24/08/2010 11:42 π.μ., Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, August 23, 2010 a las 02:31:08PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias > escribió: > > >>> Once having setup VMware (workstation), I plan to boot from FreeBSD live >>> CD, create the slices big enough and fill in the dumps of my current >>> syst

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
the problem is not which version of mkfs (ext2fs) you use. the problem is that BSD only handle ext2fs partitions with 128b inodes, while default value is 256. when running mkfs/newfs, be sure to specify -I 128 also, I won't recommand ntfs. but, ntfs "works" correctly under BSD and Linux. so, if yo

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:53:09 +, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > There is the obvious possibility of using msdos (FAT32); I could > run FreeDOS on such a partition as well as using the partition to > share data between Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD, and FreeDOS too. > Drawback is some problems getting

sendmail rdns question

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Sorry for posting on a bsd list but i figure there's more than a few sendmail experts here. I would like to run reverse dns checks on one of my boxes but the check_rnds macro looks a bit overkill to me. I want to reject the mail if there's no reverse dns, but not if there is rdns but

RE: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Christer Solstrand Johannessen
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon > Sent: 24. august 2010 12:55 > To: Thomas Mueller > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD? >

ghostscript-8.71 update

2010-08-24 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Trying to update ghostscript, but seems to fail. Can somebody provide me with info on how to solve this? Here error during build of port .. cc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_HYPOT -DHAVE_FONTCONFIG -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -DUPD_SIGNAL=0 -I. -I/usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/gho

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010 15:01:22 Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi, > > In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to > acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. > They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days o

Msmtp

2010-08-24 Thread Rem P Roberti
Anyone using msmtp as an smtp client? I have Comcast as an ISP and am unable to achieve authentication. The weird thing is that I saved my .msmtprc file from a previous installation where it worked just fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Molecular Modeling Software?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Maness
Is there any molecular modeling software in ports? Regards, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: Molecular Modeling Software?

2010-08-24 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
Maybe /usr/ports/biology/pymol is what you need On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:22:57 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: > Is there any molecular modeling software in ports? > > Regards, > Chris Maness > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.

Re: Molecular Modeling Software?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: >  Maybe /usr/ports/biology/pymol is what you need > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:22:57 -0700 > Chris Maness wrote: > >> Is there any molecular modeling software in ports? >> >> Regards, >> Chris Maness >> Yea, I see that one there plus tinker

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:04 -0400, Christer Solstrand Johannessen wrote: > If there are no Windows clients involved, I'd use NFS or AFS; Yes, I forgot to mention NFS. Of course it works, as the support for it in UNIX, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X is sufficiently good. But it may not be a solution i

Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Maness
I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat.  However I am still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots.  So it is not the modules.  I am thinking hardware.  It has a temperature alarm that sounds when it is hot, but since I

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Chris Maness wrote: > I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for > virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am > still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the > modules. I am thinking hardware. It has a

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:29:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:09:04 -0400, Christer Solstrand Johannessen > wrote: > > If there are no Windows clients involved, I'd use NFS or AFS; > > Yes, I forgot to mention NFS. Of course it works, as the support > for it in UNIX, Lin

Opera 10.61 (FreeBSD 8/i386) crash - can't read kernel memory

2010-08-24 Thread parv
Why does Opera 10.61.6430 want to read kernel memory (on FreeBSD 8[.0]-STABLE/i386), leading to eventual death ... opera [crash logging]: Can't read kernel memory: : /dev/mem: Permission denied opera [crash logging]: CRASH!! got signal SIGSEGV at address 0819DEA6 ... while shutting down n

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Joshua Isom
On 8/24/2010 4:53 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? With NetBSD through 5.1_RC3, I got "unsupported inode size" when trying to mount Linux ext2fs partition from NetBSD. With FreeBSD throug

nfs server /home not responding

2010-08-24 Thread Lucas Wang
Hi experts, We use NFS to store /home directory for users in our lab. However, we occasionally get blocked from logging in because the automount daemon on a NFS client machine hangs. When that happens, we get this error message on the NFS client machine called "bucks" in its system logs: Aug 24 1

Re: nfs server /home not responding

2010-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Lucas Wang : > > We use NFS to store /home directory for users in our lab. > However, we occasionally get blocked from logging in because > the automount daemon on a NFS client machine hangs. When > that happens, we get this error message on the NFS client machine > called "bucks"

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 24 12:29:16 2010 > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:27 -0700 > From: Chris Maness > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules) > > I have commented out the lines that load kernel modu

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Tue Aug 24 12:29:16 2010 >> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:27 -0700 >> From: Chris Maness >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modu

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 24/08/2010 10:58 μ.μ., Chris Maness wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Robert Bonomi > wrote: > >>> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 24 12:29:16 2010 >>> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:27 -0700 >>> From: Chris Maness >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject:

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Reko Turja
When I looked at the regular level kernel log, it seemed to be out of the clear blue. I've seen once behaviour like this on FreeBSD and it was caused by faulty ECC memory comb. Incorrectable CRC error just caused a diagnosis beep sequence and then machine shut down immediately after. -Reko

printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
I'm using CUPS on FreeBSD 8.0, and any time I try to print from outside Firefox the top and bottom of a PDF gets cut off. I don't have any means installed for printing a PDF from inside Firefox, but Webpages and the CUPS test page print just fine from within the browser. For instance: /usr/l

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: > > I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for > virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat.  However I am > still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots.  So it is not the > modules.  I am thinking hardw

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > I'm using CUPS on FreeBSD 8.0, and any time I try to print from outside > Firefox the top and bottom of a PDF gets cut off. I don't have any means > installed for printing a PDF from inside Firefox, but Webpages and the > CUPS test page print just fi

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Ryan Coleman
I was thinking that, maybe, it's the PSU itself. Does the fan work? Do you have the ability to get temperatures inside your computer? Get those to poll every minute or so and write to a flat file? -- Ryan On Aug 24, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -07

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:04:32PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > I'm not seeing that here, but I don't have a PDF that prints data in the > margins. If you have one, can you email it to me? I don't think it prints to the margins, per se. I also know that it's not particular to the printer, sinc

Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Atkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/10 10:29, Chris Maness wrote: > I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for > virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am > still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the > modules

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:04:32PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > I'm not seeing that here, but I don't have a PDF that prints data in the > > margins. If you have one, can you email it to me? > > I don't think it prints to the margins, per se.

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm using CUPS on FreeBSD 8.0, and any time I try to print from outside Firefox the top and bottom of a PDF gets cut off. I don't have any means installed for printing a PDF from inside Firefox, but Webpages and the CUPS test page print just fine from wit

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:53:09 + "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and > safely written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? I've not tried it recently, but I think UFS (both UFS1 and UFS2 seem to be supported) should work well; since 2.6.29 Lin

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:49:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > The LJ4050 is a great printer, but it doesn't print PDFs natively. > > So you need to find what CUPS is using to convert PDFs to PostScript and > adjust that. It may be an A4 to letter conversion, or it's trying to > "intelligen

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:49:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: The LJ4050 is a great printer, but it doesn't print PDFs natively. So you need to find what CUPS is using to convert PDFs to PostScript and adjust that. It may be an A4 to letter conversion,

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: > What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely > written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional Windows thrown in the mix. But it is very slow, mostly, I bel

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-24 Thread Gustavo De Nardin
On 24 August 2010 20:48, Gustavo De Nardin wrote: > On 24 August 2010 06:53, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> What is the best choice for a file system that can be read, and safely >> written to, by Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD? > > I've been trying NTFS(-3g). It's been going well, with even occasional > W

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:49:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> > >>The LJ4050 is a great printer, but it doesn't print PDFs natively. > >> > >>So you need to find what CUPS is using to convert PDFs to

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: As Chip Camden noted, it could be a problem with the printable area not being correct. CUPS should get that information from a PPD file--I think. Do you have the correct PPD installed...er...wherever it shou

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > >Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > >>As Chip Camden noted, it could be a problem with the printable area not > >>being correct. CUPS should get that information from a PPD file--I > >>think.

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:12:40PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >CUPS is a black box to me, filled with black magic. > > Me too. That's why I use lpd. I'm considering it, at least for this laptop. Still, it would be nice to know how to fix this prob

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:33:34PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: > > > > It appears that PPDs are stored in the reasonably-named > > /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd. There's a PPD for the LJ4050 in > > print/foomatic-db... > > > > And it has > > *Imageabl