Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:51 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 23:57 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:24:06AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: You can use mtree against the spec files in /etc/mtree/ to check for and fix incorrect permissions and owners

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:51:21 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:37:25 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: It's rather untypical to check out _only_ kernel sources without the top level content. For the update from 8.x to 9.1 I even didn't check out the kernel source, this is something I did much later ;). I simply followed

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:58:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:37:25 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: It's rather untypical to check out _only_ kernel sources without the top level content. For the update from 8.x to 9.1 I even didn't check out the kernel source,

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Good morning, if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a single question, at least not for dbus. # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 377744 Jan 18 22:44 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon # cd /usr/ports/devel/dbus ; make deinstall reinstall

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! if I run 'make deinstall reinstall' for a port, it doesn't ask a single question, at least not for dbus. # ls -l /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon! The sun of the planet of the ood? Or the former Sun of one of the microsystems? :-)

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:58:06 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Good morning, ood morning? The sun is settling soon!

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:28:47 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: I think that installing it in multi-user mode without other users having things running, will work in 99.% of the cases. In his special case, it will work 100% as only the permissions should et changed.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is GENERIC). # 4. `make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE'

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' (default is

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: # cd /usr/ports/misc/mc make install clean # uname -r 8.3-RELEASE # freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update install # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:38:38 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:15:09 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Is there a command to deinstall and reinstall all ports or an idea for a script to

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: If you only will have to handle a few ports, using the bare ports method (make) is probably the easiest way (in case everything else stays definitely consistent). What could become inconsistent without upgrading or downgrading? I didn't

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:46 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:24 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: You can use mtree against the spec files in /etc/mtree/ to check for and fix incorrect permissions and owners on base system files. It won't help with /usr/local, but at least you can get the base straight. As root, from the root

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:36:36 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 13:58 +0100, Polytropon wrote: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make buildkernel

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:49 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:22:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your system Don't worry, I run dump to backup it, but I'll

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:01:18 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:48 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:15:28 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: As for the listings in /usr/local they'll need fixed. On my system, almost everything's owned by root. There are a

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-26 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:11:37 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 08:49 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:22:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages) I can now log in to a user X session by GDM. The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator or by ttyv1 (Ctrl + Alt + F2). This was possible before I switched the uid. Before the

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:51 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: after running '# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -d /etc /etc/master.passwd' (FWIW there were no messages) I can now log in to a user X session by GDM. this sounds so much better. The user can't become root using

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:05:51 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The user can't become root using Xfce Terminal Emulator or by ttyv1 (Ctrl + Alt + F2). This was possible before I switched the uid. Before the switch PPPoE was enabled automatically, now I have to do it manually. $ su su: not

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Erich :) On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: What happens on a normal TTY? Ctrl + Alt + F2 So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here? Ctrl + Alt + F* will open a ttyv* I can log in as root, but if I log in as user, I can't

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Erich :) On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: What happens on a normal TTY? Ctrl + Alt + F2 So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here? Ctrl + Alt + F* will open

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Ralf, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:39:07 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:07 +0100, Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com wrote: What happens on a normal TTY? Ctrl + Alt + F2 So, you can switch to them. Can you try a su here?

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you all :) everything is ok now. I don't mark the thread as solved, since I still didn't set up Evolution. On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:33:46 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: $ ls -l `which su` -r-sr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 16880 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/su Erm... that looks

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:48:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:33:46 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: $ ls -l `which su` -r-sr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 16880 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/su Erm... that looks horribly wrong. The permissions indicate that setuid is

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: % ls -lR / | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse It's better I umount at least Arch Linux. # cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ad4s1b none

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:26:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: There anyway is an issue, it doesn't show the pass, I checked this with $ ls -lR /home/ | grep -v /home after running $ ls -lR / | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse IOW I get tons of files, but don't

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:26:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: % ls -lR / | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse It's better I umount at least Arch Linux. True. :-) There anyway is an issue, it doesn't show the pass, I

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:12:15 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: find / -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 32736 Dec 23 18:38 ssh-agent -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 32736 Dec 23 18:38 /usr/bin/ssh-agent ^C A lot of stuff from

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:41:24 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:12:15 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: find / -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel 32736 Dec 23 18:38 ssh-agent -r-xr-xr-x 1 rocketmouse wheel

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
It still does list directories in /home :(. This file definitively only is in /home: $ grep find_ find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 81920 Jan 25 20:52 find_1000.txt $ ls -ld find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 513434 Jan 25 21:14 find_1000.txt Others

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 9:12 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:26:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:04:14 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: % ls -lR / | grep -v /home | grep rocketmouse It's better I umount at least Arch Linux. True. :-) There anyway

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/25/2013 3:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It still does list directories in /home :(. This file definitively only is in /home: $ grep find_ find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 81920 Jan 25 20:52 find_1000.txt $ ls -ld find_1000.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root rocketmouse 513434

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your system Don't worry, I run dump to backup it, but I'll try to fix it without restoring it from the backup. -- Technology doesn't necessarily make you smarter

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:22:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:51:55 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if my original command ended up breaking your system Don't worry, I run dump to backup it, but I'll try to fix it without restoring it from the backup.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread 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

Re: Fwd: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I was surpriesed, when Evolution from Linux had no permissions anymore to access the mail folder, after drwxrwx--- rocketmouse wheel was stable for FreeBSD I wasn't aware, that even between Linux only, the folders for mount points share the same permissions, once the partition is mounted,

Re: Fwd: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/24/2013 3:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I was surpriesed, when Evolution from Linux had no permissions anymore to access the mail folder, after drwxrwx--- rocketmouse wheel was stable for FreeBSD I wasn't aware, that even between Linux only, the folders for mount points share the same

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi all, hi Joshua, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; I made one mistake, when I run find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; for the fist time, I did it without the :. Later I run it

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi all, hi Joshua, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; I made one mistake, when I run find /

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Kevin, thank you Erich, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 21:10 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: The correct way to edit the password file is with the vipw command. When you are done with your changes it rewrites the password file AND rebuilds the password database. I'm guessing you have a

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:11:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi all, hi Joshua, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:10 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: find / -uid 1001 -exec chown 1000 '{}' \; find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}' \; I made one mistake, when I run find / -gid 1001 -exec chown :1000 '{}'

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 08:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote: You should have been reading my advice about changing the UID:GID in detail. :-) I deleted it by accident from the until now _not_ shared mails, IOW I deleted it from the FreeBSD mails only and missed it, when having a brief look at the

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:51:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thank you Kevin, thank you Erich, On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 21:10 -0500, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: The correct way to edit the password file is with the vipw command. When you are done with your changes it rewrites the password file AND

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:32:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 08:03 +0100, Polytropon wrote: UIDs and GIDs should match here. All files belonging to rocketmouse should be 1000:1000 _and_ the name rocketmouse should be associated to those numerical values (see files mentioned

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g. Ubuntu Quantal it's Evolution 3.6.0. I'm doing it by a link: It looks like to me you're asking for long

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:16:42 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g. Ubuntu Quantal it's Evolution 3.6.0. I'm

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 22/01/2013 05:32, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course,

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Joshua Isom
He already mentioned different major versions, and changing to 5.0 in a few years may need the mail migrated for a new feature. Then there could be trouble. Getting storage away from the client is the most stable. A local cache will likely provide all the new fancy features. Polytropon

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:16:42 +0100, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like to me you're asking for long term trouble. You're using multiple versions, so in the future there could be changes that could corrupt your mail. Why not just use an IMAP server instead? It's what I do,

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:26:18 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:16:42 -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On 1/21/2013 5:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) perhaps good news for me. That's strange. Now user and group are kept for the mount point of the ext3 fs. Can I assume that this usually should work and that I just had bad luck, when permissions, user and group were automatically changed? root@freebsd:/mnt # ls -l drwxrwx--- 21

Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I'm sharing the same directory for Evolution emails, by several Linux installs. For e.g. Ubuntu Precise it's Evolution 3.2.3 and for e.g. Ubuntu Quantal it's Evolution 3.6.0. I'm doing it by a link: root@precise:~# ls -l /home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution lrwxrwxrwx 1 spinymouse

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20 20:09 dump it seems that you do not have a user with the

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l /mnt drwxrwx--- 21 1000 1000 4096 Oct 28 19:11 archlinux drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 4096 Jan 20

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hallo Ralf, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:53:52 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 07:31 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:33:49 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: root@freebsd:/usr/home/rocketmouse # ls -l

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing FreeBSD would be without owner.

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course,

Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD

2013-01-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, this would work. But then all