Hi Stephen,

Stephen Walsh wrote to Michiel Broek:
SW> Hello Michiel.
SW> 
SW> What is the best way to transfer mbse from one machine to another?
SW> 
SW> I'm in the process of setting up a new system. The old one is Redhat 9, 
SW> kernel
SW> 2.4.31.
SW> The new one is Centos 4.4, Kernel 2.6.20.4.
SW> 
SW> I know a new compile of the executibles is required, but what else?


The main thing is copy the whole /opt/mbse over, the best is to shutdown the
old bbs, cd to /opt and do "tar cvfz mbse.tar.gz mbse"

Then cut and paste the bbs users from /etc/passwd /etc/shadow, /etc/group to
the new machine.

On the new machine in /opt extract the archive.


If you copied the source with it the better, then just do "make clean",
"./configure", "make" and "make install" as root.
Else install the a new source first.

The see that the startup scripts work when the new system boots, I don't
know centos but on most systems you must do something.


Then you need manual changes to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf or files
in /etc/xined.d to add the network functions again.

Last thing should be to copy the crontab for mbse over.


Russel Tiedt did it a while ago, Russell, was that all??



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