Bryan -
As you do doubt call tell, Linux/UNIX is not my area of expertise
resulting in some basic questions. Using the designations of Master and
Slave, my Master and Slave have two different versions of RH software:
RH 9 and Centos 4.1. The Slave has it's own set of Services: HTTP, FTP
and Samba along with other supporting Services.
Will this create a problem?
Todd
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:06 -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there
>>are no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from
>>another server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has
>>been tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a
>>problem.
>>Is there a simple way to move the /home directory? And the non-system
>>users in the password and group files?
>>
>>
>
>Yes, It's called NIS and NFS.
>It makes it extremely easy and painless.
>
>It may seem like I'm suggesting more work, but once you do it once your
>network, you will never do it again. Even if you leave NIS and NFS
>disabled, once you set them up, you can always start the services.
>
>With NIS, merely setup your current server as an NIS master. Reference
>the HOWTO (see TLDP.org). Now setup the new server as a slave. The
>maps get pushed and now you have a copy of all essential UNIX
>configuration files necessary (passwd, hosts, services, etc...). Merely
>cat >> the maps into the new server's files and make it the master.
>
>With NFS, just export /home from the old server with "no_root_squash"
>for the new server IP, and mount it on the new one. Now you can move
>(mv) things directly over from one /home to another.
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