Losing mail? That's the point of tar'ing up /var/spool/mail. And the easiest addition to that is to stop the mail daemon on the old system before tar'ing up the directory.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:46:39AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > > Copy the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files to tne new system. > > > > tar up /home and /var/spool/mail on the old system and untar them on the > > new system...voila! > > > > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Michael Ketani wrote: > > > > > The users are all mail server users only. The do not have shell access > > > (/bin/false) although we give them home directories (which they do not > > > get to use anyway). It would be nice if I didn't lose anyone's mail in > > > the process, but if this is unavoidable then I can leave with it. > > Hmmm. I'd look at a way to not lose e-mail. > > Copying over the user files is a good start, but I would consider > running the new machine in parallel for a test. Can you get the old > machine to send copies of all incoming e-mail to the new machine, and > make sure it will accept them properly? That would test that the UIDs > and all survived the tarring and still make sense on the new machine. > > If that works, then take what you know and learned to make the new > machine compatible with the old one, then cleanly take down the old > machine off line as you currently do for maintenance, rsync any new > changes to spool, shadow, etc., on the old machine over the the new, > then quick switch identities (IP address, host name) to the new machine > and bring it up. > > Or something like that, > > > -kb, the Kent who is interested in hearing correction to and comments > on the above. > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
