[lug] User Account Migration

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Thu Jul 19 09:06:23 MDT 2001


ownership of file?

I would also do a google search on your mta and BOGUS and see what turns
up.

Hugh


"Stephen Smith"
> 
> 
> --- Sean Reifschneider <jafo-nclug at tummy.com> wrote:
> > The migration process tends to be fairly
> > automatable, but usually requires
> > writing some scripts that are specific to your
> > setup.
> > 
> > The basic migration strategy is:
> > 
> >    Shut down both mail servers.
> >    Copy the accounts from old machine to new.
> >    Copy the mail from old machine to new.
> I have the new server running okay.
> I moved the mail but now when new messages come into
> the server, the old mail queue is renamed something
> like..
> "BOGUS.username.-eeD"
> And the log reads..
> Jul 19 10:22:12 mail procmail[10021]: Renamed bogus
> "/var/spool/mail/username" into
> "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.username.gdeD"
> And a new queue is created.
> 
> What happened?
> Did I forget something?



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