<quote who="Voytek Eymont"> > I was looking at activate the new mail server, and, then, rsync the > existing Maildirs to 'synchronize' old & new servers; > > as I'm the only user with shell access, should I just add shell access to > user '5000' for the purpose of running rsync, then, remove it? > > or, what's a proper way to do this copy ?
There are plenty of proper ways to do it! Given that you're not actually synchronising or updating anything, you could use tar and netcat. That's way fast. > what the proper way to add/remove shell, can I just edit /etc/passwd ? If you mean adding a user, you should use the user management tools provided by your distribution (such as adduser/useradd). > do I need to give user '5000' a name, or can I just use '5000' in rsync ? Check the -a parameter for rsync. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "When's the last time you heard of the police having to intervene at an antiquarian book riot?" - Raph Levien -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
