Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:01:18 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <1359190878.2029.42.camel@precise> In-Reply-To: <20130126084856.787531e6.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <op.wrhkgfqyqhadp0@freebsd> <51030400.9050404@gmail.com> <20130126084856.787531e6.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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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