On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:24 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd. > > > Then I switched out the hardware, did a netinst with the stock > > > 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel. When netinst succeded I copied the > > > contents of the cd into /home. Voila, tom resurrected. > > > > > > I don't immediately see why this should not have worked > > > flawlessly. I'll puzzel it out and, in the meantime, login as > > > dummy. > > > > > > > With what means did you backup /home? Were the permissions respected? > > Personally, I backup to a tarball then burn that tarball file to cd > > (split if need be). > > > As tom I ran mkisofs -R -o tom.iso /home/tom and burnt the iso. It fit on > one cd. Apparently when I put it back I made a mistake. I have just run > chown -R tom:tom tom from /home and then chown -R tom:tom .* from > /home/tom and now everything works.
I was just going to suggest doing this. Glad you nailed it. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
