From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 21:11:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 704F014ED8 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:11:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA09220; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:11:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199904020511.AAA09220@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: rdisting passwd from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: <19990402043724.87886.qmail@hotmail.com> from FreeBSD Questions at "Apr 1, 99 08:37:24 pm" To: freebsdquestions@hotmail.com (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:11:14 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Questions wrote, > I would like to migrate from BSD/OS to FreeBSD 3.1. I'm > attempting to use rdist to copy the /etc/passwd, > /etc/master.passwd, /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db > files from BSD/OS to FreeBSD. I wouldn't trust moving the *.db files across platforms. I do not know if it is your problem, but you might want to consider only moving the text files and rebuilding the db files natively on FreeBSD. Just an idea. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message