[lug] User Account Migration

[Justin]

I've seen these BOGUS spool files when I manually removed certain users 
(ie: deleted their line from /etc/passwd). It seemed like the mail 
spool file no longer had a valid uid.gid from the /etc/passwd to assign 
to it. You moved the right /etc/passwd and /etc/group files over right 
to the new server right?

Justin

> 
> --- 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stephen
> 
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