From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 10:19:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E970337B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.crc.co.za (home.crc.co.za [196.36.165.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0C943E3B for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:19:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Received: from dman ([192.168.1.8]) by home.crc.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAE6GH288879; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:16:18 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from doron@home.crc.co.za) Message-ID: <017c01c28ba5$e2055460$0801a8c0@dman> From: "Doron Shmaryahu" To: "Craig M. Luchtefeld" , References: <000101c28b8f$ef81a370$0500000a@x00000000> Subject: Re: Migrating Linux to FreeBSD Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:20:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, if you would like I have a procedure and scripts that will convert linux password file to freebsd format. Doron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig M. Luchtefeld" To: Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:43 AM Subject: Migrating Linux to FreeBSD > Hello all, > > Ive inherited control of two linux boxes at work which provide > essentially nothing more than mail and ftp access to a bunch of external > customers. We host their domains on these two servers and they either > pop-off or access their email through squirrelmail. To make a really > long story short, we're looking to setup two boxes in parallel, migrate > the data, test for a week or so, and then switch the old boxes out. > > I know enough in Linux and FreeBSD to get by, but I have a bit more > experience with FreeBSD and love how easy it is to install new apps, > update apps, etc. My question is this: are there any known good > procedures on how to migrate roughly 200 users on a RedHat 6.2 linux > server over to a FreeBSD server? Im looking basically to retain their > username/passwords and their mail. Everything else is going to be > installed from scratch using FreeBSD 4.7. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas/help. > > Craig > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message