How can i restore 5.2 configuration into 9.0

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
I am having redhat linux 5.2 (Apollo)
running sendmail and LDAP running on it.

I had just installed redhat linux 9.0 onto
another system.

Now i want to get my sendmail and LDAP
configuration from the old box to the
newer one, Including user account and
their data.

In other words, I just want to have a
replicated system on my redhat 9.0

How can i import the settings to my new
box, please give me commands to do that. I
am a newbie to this things.

Regards,
Amit.

[Huc_1]

Amit,

You have posted lots of call about the same subject "+/- How do I duplicated my disk to migrate from RH 5.2 to 9.0 on a new system so my Sendmail, lapd, and user are preserved"

In fact 3 post.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=306166
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=306406
plus this one.

This is getting a bit confusing for the reader , It is for me, could you keep to one post? please.

I have produce 2 long reply to explain how I would use dump and how to upgrade to do it, to find out later in a other post that you now have decided to install RH 9.0 and you now need a script on how to clone user, sendmail, ldap ...

To do what you now ask for use tar or dump on your /home (if this where you have keept your users) copy over the ldap and sendmail configuration and setup files and adapted then.

restart services
check
if ok retire old system and swith to new

J-P

[Steven E. Protter]

sendmail itself has changes a wee bit between RH 5.2 and 9.0

You probably will not get the sendmail daemon to work by just taking sendmail.cf across from old to new or sendmail.mc and generating new hash databases.

I had this issue going RH 7.3 to 9.0

Your best bet from an old sendmail vetran is to take two files from your 5.2 sendmail.cf and sendmail.original.cf do a diff on them to see what modifications you made.

Then feature by feature, migrate the features over, taking care to bounce the sendmail daemon (service sendmail restart) so you know what change something broke.

Migrating sendmail.mc, the hash databases by themselves is unlikely to produce the desired results.

There are some good integration documents concerning LDAP at http://sendmail.org and http://tldp.org

SEP