[PLUG] File Transfers From /etc

[Heath Morrison]

I would not recommend blindly copying all of /etc from one machine to
another, even between machines that are similar. Is there some
specific configuration you wish to preserve?

-Heath

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote:
>
>> If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive
>> everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April
>> 2009.  I'd save apt/*, fstab (for one-off and remote mount defines),
>> backup settings, fonts, sudoers, group, hosts.*, and so on.
>
>   Well, I've been check-mated by xubuntu. I tarred the 11M /etc directory on
> the old Toshiba Tecra onto a USB flash drive (1.3M file size). When I
> connect the flash drive to the new Toshiba Satellite it shows the files
> group as 'root'. If I mount it on my server, the file is owned by
> rshepard.users, but on her new machine it's owned by pamela.root. Sigh.
>
>   I cannot copy the file to the new machine. It won't copy to her home
> directory (permission denied), and I cannot copy it to / since there is not
> yet a root password. What a hassle!
>
>   Even working in a virtual console using 'sudo' I cannot copy the file.
>
>   Is there a way for me to create a password for root so I can su to that
> account and move the file to / for untarring into /etc/?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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