From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Feb 28 20:10:31 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DDB16A4CF
	for <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:10:31 -0800 (PST)
Received: from dhumketu.homeunix.net (dialpool-210-214-66-81.maa.sify.net
	[210.214.66.81])	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5FB843D2D
	for <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>; Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:10:17 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net)
Received: (qmail 2190 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Feb 2004 04:10:04 -0000
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:40:04 +0530
From: Shantanoo <freebsd@dhumketu.cjb.net>
To: "Scott St. John" <ssj@scottah.com>
Message-ID: <20040229041004.GA2158@dhumketu.homeunix.net>
References: <20040228191105.M42305@scottah.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20040228191105.M42305@scottah.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
Organization: Hmmm... I dunno
X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Final conversion questions
X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Internet Services Providers <freebsd-isp.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp>,
	<mailto:freebsd-isp-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-isp>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-isp-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp>,
	<mailto:freebsd-isp-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 04:10:31 -0000

+++ Scott St. John [freebsd] [28-02-04 14:15 -0500]:
| 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?

tar -cvf test.tar <userdir_on_linux>

then 

tar -xvpf <userdir_on_bsd>

| 
| 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.

i think dotfiles are included while you tar.

Shantanoo
| 
| Thanks in advance!
| 
| -Scott
| 
| 
| ------------------------------