Re[2]: Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Hello Ken,

Thursday, July 27, 2000, 4:38:40 PM, you wrote:
> Becareful about uid's and gid's. Try to make them the same
> from one machine to the next. Check /var/qmail/users/assign

I think I'll just use the same uids and gids as on the old machine.
That should beware me of the uid / gid trouble...

Re: Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

[Ken Jones]

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I've got a SuSE Linux 6.3 server which runs vpopmail 4.8.5 and needs
> to be migrated to FreeBSD 4-Stable (or 4.1 if you want to call it that
> way). So what do I have to copy over to the new machine beside
> /home/vpopmail/domains
> /var/qmail/control
> in order to save all of the configuration information needed by
> qmail and vpopmail (server is configured like suggested in Life with
> Qmail with one minor change: qmail-popup runs under tcpserver but I
> intend to take all the startup stuff from the existing FreeBSD
> servers anyway ;-)?
> 
> Is it a good idea to create a /etc/qmail dir to save all
> the configuration informations there and just make symlinks to /var/qmail?

Symlinks are pretty darn handy when moving installation
to a different machine. ;]

Becareful about uid's and gid's. Try to make them the same
from one machine to the next. Check /var/qmail/users/assign

Ken

Migrating a vpopmail Linux box to FreeBSD

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Hello,
I've got a SuSE Linux 6.3 server which runs vpopmail 4.8.5 and needs
to be migrated to FreeBSD 4-Stable (or 4.1 if you want to call it that
way). So what do I have to copy over to the new machine beside
/home/vpopmail/domains
/var/qmail/control
in order to save all of the configuration information needed by
qmail and vpopmail (server is configured like suggested in Life with
Qmail with one minor change: qmail-popup runs under tcpserver but I
intend to take all the startup stuff from the existing FreeBSD
servers anyway ;-)?

Is it a good idea to create a /etc/qmail dir to save all
the configuration informations there and just make symlinks to /var/qmail?

  


Best regards,
 Gabriel