From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 3 15: 1:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from irev.net (irev.net [63.101.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B471537B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (presence@localhost) by irev.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e93M15w34195; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from presence@irev.net) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Presence To: InvictaNet Customer Support Cc: Freebsd-ISP Subject: Re: move home dirs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Funny thing, I just did this last night, moving all the users and directories from an old 3.5 server to the new 4.1 box. I used NFS to mount the two servers together for a short while and ran on the new server: (cd /mnt/old/usr/home/ ; tar -cvlf - .)|(cd /usr/home/; tar xpf -) It moved everything across perfectly, including .dot files and permissions. I did the same thing for the /var/mail directory and /var/log/httpd/ directories while I was at it. Also, if you have a problem where user id's aren't being mapped to usernames like I did, try running vipw, make a single change somewhere, then save. It seemed to force everything to align up nicely. Presence Morrigan o Inner Revolution BBS o 877-Im-31337 http://root.ws/ o http://irev.net/ o root@root.ws > I need to move some users from one machine to another. I have already > successfully updated the master.passwd file but now need to move the > homedirs and mailfiles > > Any suggestions please? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message