Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:01:39 -0600 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> To: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Miagrating from Red Hat Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <3AA44503.F92CBEBC@buckhorn.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103052041160.14354-100000@equinox.datasyrge.net>
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"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:
>
> Sendmail and all of those other utilities that come preloaded, etc. is
> what i'm talking about, i'm looking for the way to go to FreeBSD while
> minimizing on downtime from my server. -- Jonathan M. Slivko
>
Most "bolt on" programs, like BIND, MySQL, Apache, and ProFTPd have
configuration files that can easily be moved from one system to another.
All of the sendmail files except sendmail.cf (and the db files) are also
system independant. You can diff the sendmail.cf's, so that should also
be pretty trivial.
I'm not really up on Linux password files, so I suggest you dig a little
on that. I do know that it's just a matter of reorganizing most other
Unicies password file to import them (And making sure that you use the
same encryption method)
Some of the more "standardized" system files will transfer, like
/etc/hosts, and resolv.conf. System specific stuff like firewalls will
have to be recreated.
Good Luck!
Bob Martin
--
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
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