Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu LTS

Chris,

On 17 February 2010 23:44, Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???> wrote:
> Before you copy /home, make sure that the users with directories in
> /home (e.g. /home/clive) are created on the new system with THE SAME
> USERIDS AND GROUPIDS as on the old system.  I got that wrong once, and
> found that all my files were owned by the wrong userid, and I had to do
> a lot of chown-ing.

Thanks for that tip. I have read this before but had forgotten.

> As for /etc, just copying that will make a terrible mess.  All sorts of
> things will have changed between 8.04 and 9.10 in the format and
> contents of config files.  You'll have to go through each subsystem
> (e.g. exim, apache, etc.) and work out how to migrate settings from old
> to new.  In some cases, just copying files will work, but don't ask me
> which cases those are.

This is as I suspected.
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Clive