Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
Ralf Mardorf
ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Sat Jan 26 09:01:27 UTC 2013
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:48 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:15:28 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote:
> > Ignore /proc, unmount it even. You don't need it on FreeBSD and
> > shouldn't expect it to be there.
>
> As far as I know, Gnome (or at least GDM) _requires_ it to
> be able to show the available user names. I have no idea
> why. :-)
IIUC not GDM does need it, but GNOME.
> > As for the listings in /usr/local
> > they'll need fixed. On my system, almost everything's owned by root.
>
> There are a few exceptions when files are owned by a daemon.
> As I said, re-installing those parts (or even world) should
> fix this, but maybe it's possible to apply some "mtree magic"
> to fix the owner to the proper one (root in most cases).
Rebuilding world only shouldn't take that long.
> > The man directories are owned by man, and
> > /usr/local/libexec/polkit-set-default-helper is set as polkit:polkit.
>
> That's a good example for the non-root exceptions; there might
> be others.
There are others on my system, so I can't simply run chown -R :(.
Regards,
Ralf
PS: At the moment I'm booted into Linux, I'll take a look at all the
hints later today. Thank you all.
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