From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 5 18:20:43 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 B3F5E37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:20:40 -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 f262KT200650; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:20:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Message-ID: <3AA4496D.D25A2ACD@buckhorn.net> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:20:29 -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: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: FreeBSD ISP Mailing List 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: > > Actually, I happen to know quite a bit about FreeBSD. However, I am not > looking for a magic cure to convert files, etc. I am just wondering if > it's possible if I just copy the files onto a disk and put them back in > their right places, will it work flawlessly. Also, would the esame > approach work for stored e-mail, etc? Stored e-mail will transfer just fine, but be very careful about user id/group settings. That's the tricky part. As someone else has alread mentioned, as long as you don't change versions, most add on software could care less about the OS. BIND 8.2.3 files are exactly the same on Linux, xBSD, Solaris and NT. The only sendmail file that's system dependant is sendmail.cf. Bob -- 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