Migration Problems

[kcpant]

Hi Friends,

I'm working on a migration project from RHL 8.0 server to a new Hardware with RH FC3 . The old server is a sendmail server, a web server +web mail sevrer (apache+ squirrelmail) and using Mysql for web page authentication.

Now, the problems:
1. I've copied /etc/password,group & shadow files to new server, migrated mysql databases, copied /home/user directories and /var/spool/mail to new server. Now, when a user logs in to new server, he can login successfully, but gets a basic bash prompt ( 2.05b$) instead of normal bash prompt. Im not able to understand why it's happening.

2. second thing is, sendmail giving me error " /var/spool/mail/username is not a valid mailbox". Please tell me how I can restore the mail data in new server.

Thanks in advance, any other suggestion regarding migration will be apreciated.
regards,

[njia_1]

Looks like that in Redhat 8.0 the prompt is decided by /etc/bashrc. (for bash shell only of course) In FC 3.0 it may be different.

[Steven E. Protter]

You seem to have overwritten either /etc/profile or the users .bash_profile with files with no contents or invalid contents.

You seem to have almost no environment.

If you find a good copy, replicate it.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

It seems an ownership problem. Are the owners of the home directories and the mailbox files correct? Also you should verify the permissions of these files.

[kcpant]

Closing threads open from a long time....