From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 19:43:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41EF037B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from p1.ns777.net (p1.ns777.net [216.40.247.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0E0B43E91 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@2400baud.com) Received: (qmail 29072 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2002 03:43:08 -0000 Received: from chcgil2-ar2-4-64-097-093.chcgil2.dsl-verizon.net (HELO x00000000) (4.64.97.93) by preview.ns777.net with SMTP; 14 Nov 2002 03:43:08 -0000 From: "Craig M. Luchtefeld" To: Subject: Migrating Linux to FreeBSD Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:43:02 -0600 Message-ID: <000101c28b8f$ef81a370$0500000a@x00000000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, Ive inherited control of two linux boxes at work which provide essentially nothing more than mail and ftp access to a bunch of external customers. We host their domains on these two servers and they either pop-off or access their email through squirrelmail. To make a really long story short, we're looking to setup two boxes in parallel, migrate the data, test for a week or so, and then switch the old boxes out. I know enough in Linux and FreeBSD to get by, but I have a bit more experience with FreeBSD and love how easy it is to install new apps, update apps, etc. My question is this: are there any known good procedures on how to migrate roughly 200 users on a RedHat 6.2 linux server over to a FreeBSD server? Im looking basically to retain their username/passwords and their mail. Everything else is going to be installed from scratch using FreeBSD 4.7. Thanks in advance for any ideas/help. Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message