Final conversion questions

[Shantanoo]

+++ Scott St. John [freebsd] [28-02-04 14:15 -0500]:
| Thanks to help from this list I am proud to say that tonight I will be 
| moving our mail server from Linux/Sendmail to FreeBSD/Postfix!  The user 
| passwd file has been converted and we are ready to rock, but I have a few 
| questions before I begin tonight.
| 
| I plan to copy the users home directories over, does anyone have a script 
| that will go through the home directories and correctly set the ownership of 
| the directories once they are copied over?  Example, user Fred has a home 
| dir on the old machine, I copy over the files to the BSD box, I need to 
| chown -R fred:users to his home directory.  I could do it by hand, but I am 
| sure there has to be a script out there to do something similar?

tar -cvf test.tar <userdir_on_linux>

then 

tar -xvpf <userdir_on_bsd>

| 
| Second question, I want to make sure ALL files are copied over from the home 
| directories and I think I have the syntax wrong to get the files, I want 
| the .procmailrc files to transfer over.

i think dotfiles are included while you tar.

Shantanoo
| 
| Thanks in advance!
| 
| -Scott
| 
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