>Knute Johnson wrote: >> I've finally gotten F7 to run on my computer and now I want to >> migrate my mailserver from the old computer running FC4 to the new >> one. How do I move my users passwords and mail to the new computer? >> Is there a guide somewhere? This must be a fairly common procedure. >> >> Thanks, >> >I am not sure about a guide - I never looked for one. One way to do >it is to grab the user section of passwd, shadow, group, and >gshadow. Then merge them into the corresponding files one the new >system using vipw and vigr. Then, depending on the setup, tar up the >mail spool, and untar it on the new system. Do the same with the >/home tree if necessary. If you are using SELinux, you will have to >relabel the files after moving them. You will want to update passwd >before untaring the files from the other system. > >This is not a complete description by any means, but hopefully it >will point you in the right direction, and others will jump in to >fill in the stuff I am forgetting! > >Mikkel Mikkel: Thanks very much. I'm going to have to try this I think before I'm really ready to migrate just to make sure I don't create a huge mess. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
