Hi, Thomas. On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am in the process of replacing a failing hard drive. I copied my home > directory from the old drive to the new drive with > > cd /oldhome/tom > cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by trial and error that .* > works) Ugh.. cp'ing is better then tam-taming (that one was sweeet, Richard :-)), but it still doesn't handle gracefully non-regular files as are pipes, device nodes, ... symlinks. If you still have your oldhome, do the same using two tars: tar cC /oldhome/tom . | tar xC /home/tom will do :-) > Almost everything works - e.g. mozilla previously undeleted mail - but > fetchmail which aborts with the "lock creation failed" message. The lockfile is `~/.fetchmail.pid'. This surely means you have no write permission to this file, or to your home directory, or both. > How can I fix this? rm ~/.fetchmail.pid, and check your permissions wrt your home directory. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7
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