From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 29 08:04:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754C216A400 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534FD13C469 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JH900K582F1XN90@l-daemon> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:04:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JH900KID2EWZ5F0@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:04:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([24.81.202.129]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JH900MTK2EUDU43@l-daemon> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:04:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:04:04 -0700 From: Graham North In-reply-to: <463449FC.1000903@hier7.com> To: Chris Slothouber Message-id: <46345174.5050801@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <463390A0.20508@shaw.ca> <20070429010026.GB9913@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070429021759.GA2862@holestein.holy.cow> <4634348C.3000104@shaw.ca> <46343A00.9000408@hier7.com> <4634468A.7060009@shaw.ca> <463449FC.1000903@hier7.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: normal mount points X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:04:15 -0000 Hi Chris: I will fire it up again tomorrow or Monday and report back. Thank you for your help. Graham/ Chris Slothouber wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2007-04-29 03:17, Graham North wrote: > >> Chris Slothouber wrote: >> On 2007-04-29 02:00, Graham North wrote: >> >> >>>>> I am still hoping that somebody can tell me what /net and /host are - >>>>> inted? samba?? >>>>> >>>>> >>> As mentioned previously, no part of FreeBSD (port or package included) >>> would ever create directories outside of hier(7), i.e. /usr/local would >>> be the place to find user-installed software. >>> What is the contents of these directories? >>> >> I believe that they are mount points, not directories. I shut the >> server down last night until I learn more. >> > > Hi Graham, thanks for your reply. > > Just for reference a file system is mounted to a directory. Before > anyone can answer your question about what these could be, some more > information would be very helpful, such as the contents of /net and > /host, the output of `mount` and the contents of /etc/fstab. > > Hopefully then we can help further. Thanks! > > - -- > Chris Slothouber (chris@hier7.com) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin > BIZ: http://www.hier7.com -=- building.better.ideas > PGP: 7A83 F021 5AC3 4BD7 6738 21D8 B348 0B16 79C0 C27F > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGNEn8s0gLFnnAwn8RAiSXAJsH0FYmtxLakX4j0Q+RYbeZYYmKDgCgvrDZ > /I0wpPsj7faKWhFflwhGd2g= > =TKCc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- Graham North Vancouver BC Canada www.soleado.ca Kindness is infectous, try it.