From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 01:07:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA20938 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 01:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA20925 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 01:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA09051; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009049; Wed Apr 29 07:58:54 1998 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:53:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Sebastian Romo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Server with New Version In-Reply-To: <3546AE66.BCC28546@cabonet.net.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA20926 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG first thing to know is that only -current (3.x series) can run DUAL processor. On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Sebastian Romo wrote: > Hi: > We are located in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and we are an ISP runing > FreeBSD versión 2.1. and we have about 550 users. > We buy a new server Dual Pentium 200 PRO and we install in there the new > version of FreeBSD 2.2.5. The question is: how we move all users and his > mail accounts to the new server? > Is necesary to use adduser one by one or have a command to do that? > If use a command, is necessary to give new passwords? or is posible to > translate too?. > copy /etc/master.passwd to the new machine, called /tmp/x vipw read in /tmp/x remove duplicate lines save and exit also copy /etc/group and do similar merge copy the home directories that should be all. but 2.2.5 will not run SMP julian > I appreciate your help, > Sincerely, > > Sebastian Romo > http://www.cabonet.net.mx > > > > 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