From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 5 18: 1:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from orion.buckhorn.net (orion.buckhorn.net [63.151.7.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4ED37B71A for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: from buckhorn.net (localhost.buckhorn.net.net [127.0.0.1]) by orion.buckhorn.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2621d200503 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:01:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <3AA44503.F92CBEBC@buckhorn.net> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:01:39 -0600 From: Bob Martin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: Miagrating from Red Hat Linux to FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message