Re: Final conversion questions

From: Bob Martin (bob_at_buckhorn.net)
Date: 02/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:53:12 -0600
To: "Scott St. John" <ssj@scottah.com>

    Scott,
    I haven't followed this thread closely enough, but from what you're
    saying, it sounds like you have a NFS connection between the 2 boxen.
    That being the case, and since the UID/GID's are the same on both boxen
    (IIRC you moved the Linux accounts to the BSD box), the following
    command will get all of the files, and maintain the permissions:

    cp -pRP /<linux mount point/home/* /home/

    If the UID/GID's have changed, then this command will fix them for you:
    (Note, this assumes you use bash as your shell)
    cd /home
    for a in `ls -1 /home`;do chown -R $a:users $a;done

    That command does assume that you have a 1 to 1 relationship between
    home directories and usernames. If not, let me know and I'll find my
    little perl script that reads /etc/passwd and sets the permissions.

    Bob Martin

    Scott St. John wrote:
    > Thanks to help from this list I am proud to say that tonight I will be
    > moving our mail server from Linux/Sendmail to FreeBSD/Postfix! The user
    > passwd file has been converted and we are ready to rock, but I have a few
    > questions before I begin tonight.
    >
    > I plan to copy the users home directories over, does anyone have a script
    > that will go through the home directories and correctly set the ownership of
    > the directories once they are copied over? Example, user Fred has a home
    > dir on the old machine, I copy over the files to the BSD box, I need to
    > chown -R fred:users to his home directory. I could do it by hand, but I am
    > sure there has to be a script out there to do something similar?
    >
    > Second question, I want to make sure ALL files are copied over from the home
    > directories and I think I have the syntax wrong to get the files, I want
    > the .procmailrc files to transfer over.
    >
    > Thanks in advance!
    >
    > -Scott
    >
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