Re: Final conversion questions

From: Andy Dills (andy_at_xecu.net)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:40:00 -0500 (EST)
To: "Scott St. John" <ssj@scottah.com>

    On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, 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.

    If the uid/gids remain the same from the other system, just make a tar of
    your users directory.

    tar cf /bigfs/users.tar /users

    That addresses both issues, in terms of preserving permissions and getting
    every file.

    Andy 

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