At 01:17 PM 6/24/2008, you wrote: >>I have an old RHEL3 box that I am upgrading to CentOS5. I picked up a >>new Dell Poweredge R200 to use for that. >> >>Is there an easy way to copy all the user accounts and existing mail >>from the old server to the new one? >> >> >> > >if local users copy /home/* /etc/passwd /etc/shadow after first >making sure there are no dupes on new system > >as for mail - what format is tha mail box in? > >maybe as simple as copying /var/spool/something > >personally i like to use rsync for this as it keeps perms well if >you ask it to - your tool of choice is your call though rsync is definitely a very good friend, especially with permissions and timestamps. Do 'man rsync' I use rsync -avz -e "ssh -p portxxx" source destination. My ssh port is non-standard. Very secure! Cheers, Glenn