On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Robert Citek wrote:
>
>> Any reason not to tar up and copy all of them?
>
> Yeah. Proceeding cautiously I copied the tarball to / and extraced only
> /etc/hosts*, /etc/ssh/*, and /etc/resolv.conf. I certainly don't want to
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Neal wrote:
>> Or just use a direct 'sudo passwd root'
>
> That, too, is kool. Thank you.
Be careful. Ubuntu is designed to work without a root password, just
like Mac OS X. Creating a root password is OK, if you are aw
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:02:02 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard dijo:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
>
> > I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
> > another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
> > specific configuration you wish to preserve?
>
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Neal wrote:
> Or just use a direct 'sudo passwd root'
NealS,
That, too, is kool. Thank you.
Rich
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>> Try "sudo bash" to get a real root shell. If that works, do a "passwd"
>> to set root's password.
>
> Hoo-ha! That worked. I was unaware of the 'sudo bash' trick. How useful!
Or just use a direct 'sudo passwd root'
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Getting closer! Probably won't be totally functional tonight, but some
> time this week.
Time for me to subscribe again to the xubuntu Web forum. I cannot find the
network configurator on the menu, and xfce doesn't want to shut down from
the menu bec
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Robert Citek wrote:
> Any reason not to tar up and copy all of them?
Yeah. Proceeding cautiously I copied the tarball to / and extraced only
/etc/hosts*, /etc/ssh/*, and /etc/resolv.conf. I certainly don't want to
change /etc/fstab to the old host's contents. I'm sure there
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
> I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
> another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
> specific configuration you wish to preserve?
OK. I now have my root password on the new box.
Can I get a cons
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
> Now you know why I poo-poo Ubuntu. I hate the whole let's-hide-root
> thing.
Carlos,
I'm not fond of it either. But, I can see the value for many (if not most)
users.
> Try "sudo bash" to get a real root shell. If that works, do a "passwd"
> to
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Heath Morrison wrote:
> I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
> another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
> specific configuration you wish to preserve?
Heath,
I was going to copy only the user, network, and printer conf
;
>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] File Transfers From /etc
>
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
>
>> If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive
>> everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April
>> 2009. I'
I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
specific configuration you wish to preserve?
-Heath
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
>
>> If this new machi
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Robert Citek wrote:
> On my system it's only 4 MB completely tar.gz'ed.
Robert,
I wonder why, then, it's only 1.3M as a .tgz file here.
Rich
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
> If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive
> everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April
> 2009. I'd save apt/*, fstab (for one-off and remote mount defines),
> backup settings, fonts, sudoers, group, ho
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Robert Citek wrote:
> Any reason not to tar up and copy all of them?
Robert,
That was my first inclination. After all, both the current and new
installations are xubuntu-9.04, so perhaps only video configurations will
differ.
Rich
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Any reason not to tar up and copy all of them?
On my system it's only 4 MB completely tar.gz'ed.
$ sudo tar -czf /tmp/etc.tar.gz /etc/
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
$ dir --si /tmp/etc.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1M 2009-11-08 14:26 /tmp/etc.tar.gz
That way if you need them, yo
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
> If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive
> everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April
> 2009. I'd save apt/*, fstab (for one-off and remote mount defines),
> backup settings, fonts, sudoers, group, hos
Rich Shepard wrote:
>Other than /etc/host* and /etc/cups/* are there other configuration files I
> ought to transfer from the old laptop to the new one to ease the transition?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Other than /etc/host* and /etc/cups/* are there other configuration files I
ought to transfer from the old laptop to the new one to ease the transition?
Thanks,
Rich
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