Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:40:00 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> To: "Scott St. John" <ssj@scottah.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Final conversion questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0402282237010.36563-100000@thunder.xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <20040228191105.M42305@scottah.com>
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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 --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---
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