Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>If you don't use SELinux just copying over should be fine, mostly. However,
>I wouldn't recommend it, apps sometimes spread their files a bit so you may
>miss one or two ... Also, your rpm/yum database is not in sync then. What I
>usually do (on server machines) is reinstall all software that is really
>needed (which usually results in less software getting installed than on
>the old machine ;-) and then replace their configuration files with the old
>ones. Home directories, MySQL databases etc. can just be "carried over".
>And you can carry over users by just adding them with cat or a text editor
>to the passwd/shadow/group/gshadow files.
>
Hi All,
yes, what you say makes sense. I just re-installed and copied over home
dir. Cheers.
Mark Sargent
