Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 18 October 1999 at 09:21:03 +0100
> On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 05:10:38PM -0400, David Villeger wrote:
> > I am convinced this problem is caused by people who try to copy /var/qmail
> > and don't do it right.
> >
> That was certainly how I managed to screw it up. I upgraded from
> Linux RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.1, I had a new drive to install on so
> just mounted the old RedHat drive on the new system so I could copy
> files across and so on.
>
> I copied the qmail installation basically by doing:-
> cp -R /oldvar/qmail/* /var/qmail
Okay, that makes sense. I'm in the habit of using "cp -a" when I try
to move stuff from one place to another. The man page seems to say
this would work -- at least it says -a preserves ownerships and
permissions (when run as root, at least :-) ).
I was really uncomfortable having this fairly frequent error not
understood (at least by me).
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