At 05:39 PM 11/24/2002 -0500, John wrote:
I currently work with an ISP that has mostly IDE on the servers doing
miscellaneous stuff, all SCSI RAID5 on the servers such as database, NFS
and network monitoring. I just like being able to pull a drive hot and
replace it nice and easy in the servers th
At 01:43 PM 11/23/2002 +0100, Torsten Krueger wrote:
You can convert the mboxes with mbox2maildir. Changing from Sendmail to
Postfix shouldn't bei a hassle and if properly prepared shouldn't produce
a long downtime. Depending on the amount and size of your mboxes the
conversion takes some time, bu
At 09:20 AM 11/23/2002 +0100, Torsten Krueger wrote:
Hmm - watch out for the load qpopper produces. Since the sendmail/qpopper
combination uses mbox a users mailbox is copied every time the mbox is
accessed. If you have large mailboxes (e.g. no quota an users leave mail
on server) this can produce
At 08:40 AM 11/23/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
Apart from webmail that should be a trivial load. Webmail systems seem to
take up lots of resources in my experience, is it an option to have a
separate machine for webmail?
I was thinking the same thing, if I can get Openwebmail to load on ano
Hi Gang:
A few weeks ago we talked about me moving a server from BSDi to Debian. As
luck
would have it that BSDi server gave out last Monday and I had to move fast
to replace
it. Knowing I can do a RH install in about 30 minutes I went the route of
familiar
territory and installed 7.2 with Se
Hi gang,
The Debian box has been a true blessing this week and I am ready to
move our users off BSDi/Sendmail to our new Debian/Postfix box. I have
the accounts in the system, but am curious if anyone has some tips on
scripting a way to fix permissions on home directories and files once the
accoun
At 03:38 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Or tar + plain rsh, no need to encrypt all that with ssh. Takes ages.
and the whole tree will be copied, permissions and all, even remapping
uids if the usernames on the new machine use different ones.
You do have to configure your old machine temporarily to
At 03:38 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Or tar + plain rsh, no need to encrypt all that with ssh. Takes ages.
and the whole tree will be copied, permissions and all, even remapping
uids if the usernames on the new machine use different ones.
You do have to configure your old machine temporarily to
Hi gang,
The Debian box has been a true blessing this week and I am ready to
move our users off BSDi/Sendmail to our new Debian/Postfix box. I have
the accounts in the system, but am curious if anyone has some tips on
scripting a way to fix permissions on home directories and files once the
accou
At 11:13 PM 10/29/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Always nice to see someone fall in love with Debian :-)
Oh, I am in love alright. I am just amazed, but sad at the same time.
This is what Linux is capable of, but there are distributions out there
that do not give this kind of performance. I guess it come
At 11:13 PM 10/29/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Always nice to see someone fall in love with Debian :-)
Oh, I am in love alright. I am just amazed, but sad at the same time.
This is what Linux is capable of, but there are distributions out there
that do not give this kind of performance. I guess it c
Thanks to a friend very familiar with Debian I have my first Debian server up
and running on a Dual Processor IBM Netfinity Server. One word: ROCKS!
Just in playing around I see what I was hoping for with RH, speed, stability,
performance! NICE :)
Moving user accounts over tonight and will start
Thanks to a friend very familiar with Debian I have my first Debian server up
and running on a Dual Processor IBM Netfinity Server. One word: ROCKS!
Just in playing around I see what I was hoping for with RH, speed, stability,
performance! NICE :)
Moving user accounts over tonight and will sta
At 12:47 PM 10/28/2002 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>Here is my script I used a couple years ago. (I don't advocate Linux over
BSD. I do advocate freedom of choice.)
I think I will try this script, THANK YOU. The biggest problem, which I
think we
have all talked about is that BSDi starts at useri
At 03:31 PM 10/29/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>1. (on BSDi), run pwunconv to convert to non-shadowed passwd file
I don't have that utility on any of my BSDi machines, scanning Google for
it now.
i wouldn't (voluntarily) use anything else.
actually, i still have a few solaris boxes, but they're considere
At 12:47 PM 10/28/2002 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>Here is my script I used a couple years ago. (I don't advocate Linux over
BSD. I do advocate freedom of choice.)
I think I will try this script, THANK YOU. The biggest problem, which I
think we
have all talked about is that BSDi starts at us
At 03:31 PM 10/29/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>1. (on BSDi), run pwunconv to convert to non-shadowed passwd file
I don't have that utility on any of my BSDi machines, scanning Google for
it now.
i wouldn't (voluntarily) use anything else.
actually, i still have a few solaris boxes, but they're consi
At 05:39 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
Debian supports both DES and MD5 hashing of passwords. If the BSD passwords
for your accounts are in one of those formats then it'll be trivial to
convert them.
You could create a test account and set a password, then post the lines from
/etc/pass
At 05:39 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
You could create a test account and set a password, then post the lines from
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow here and we'll try and devise some sort of
proceedure for you...
The BSDi machines use /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, I think that is
MD5.
Hi gang-
I have several BSDi and FreeBSD servers here that are beyond repair and I
had planned to
move them to Linux by now, but I am running into a few problems and wanted
to run them
by the crew here for some thoughts. Please note, I am new to Debian, I was
using Mandrake
and Red Hat, but dis
At 05:39 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
Debian supports both DES and MD5 hashing of passwords. If the BSD passwords
for your accounts are in one of those formats then it'll be trivial to
convert them.
You could create a test account and set a password, then post the lines from
/etc/pa
At 05:39 PM 10/28/2002 +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
You could create a test account and set a password, then post the lines from
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow here and we'll try and devise some sort of
proceedure for you...
The BSDi machines use /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, I think that is
M
Hi gang-
I have several BSDi and FreeBSD servers here that are beyond repair and I
had planned to
move them to Linux by now, but I am running into a few problems and wanted
to run them
by the crew here for some thoughts. Please note, I am new to Debian, I was
using Mandrake
and Red Hat, but di
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