Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

[Polytropon]

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. :-)



> 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).



> 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's a difference between lib directories and libexec directories. 
> Libraries are stored in lib and programs you're not expected to invoke 
> yourself are stored in libexec.

Correct. That's why my printer filters are in /opt/libexec. ;-)



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