On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> 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 > change /etc/fstab to the old host's contents. I'm sure there are more things > to not change, too.
Interesting. I would have proceeded even more cautiously: 1) backup my existing /etc/ to /etc.orig/ and tar it up to /root/etc.orig.tar.gz 2) extract the transfered tar.gz file into /tmp 3) copy the files from /tmp/etc/ to /etc/ that I think I might need 4) test, reverting to the backup /etc/ files if needed One of the nice things about gnu tar is that it strips the leading slash (/) so that you can do things like step 2. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
