Re: Permissions Question
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:24 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:02:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:25:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:32:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > > "Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> >
> > > Before shutting the old system down I burnt /home/tom to a cd.
> > > Then I switched out the hardware, did a netinst with the stock
> > > 2.6.18-4-amd64 kernel. When netinst succeded I copied the
> > > contents of the cd into /home. Voila, tom resurrected.
> > >
> > > I don't immediately see why this should not have worked
> > > flawlessly. I'll puzzel it out and, in the meantime, login as
> > > dummy.
> > >
> >
> > With what means did you backup /home? Were the permissions respected?
> > Personally, I backup to a tarball then burn that tarball file to cd
> > (split if need be).
> >
> As tom I ran mkisofs -R -o tom.iso /home/tom and burnt the iso. It fit on
> one cd. Apparently when I put it back I made a mistake. I have just run
> chown -R tom:tom tom from /home and then chown -R tom:tom .* from
> /home/tom and now everything works.
I was just going to suggest doing this. Glad you nailed it.
--
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net
Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's
Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive
product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
Reply to: