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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers copying .profile files to a new server (SCO) Post 302149296 by sighbrrguy on Wednesday 5th of December 2007 02:02:49 PM
Old 12-05-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
Sometimes you can get the NFS filesystem mounted in such a way as to give the NFS client's root account full access. But what I would do is create a tar archive on the client. Use NFS to copy the tar archive to the NFS server. Log on to the NFS server. Now untar the archive as root. At this point your are simply root resoring a tar archive to local disks...no NFS permissions to bite you.
Perderabo,

I thank you for your suggestion. I'm not real NFS savvy. I tried to do what you suggested but there were a few system files that required updating and I was uncomfortable with doing that.
So what I did was ...I logged into the source system as root and created a tar file. (from the /usr directory) tar cvf usr_profiles /usr/*/.profile Then from that system I ftp'd to the target server and placed the file (usr_profiles) in it's /usr directory. Then I just did a tar xvf usr_profiles and all the accounts in the directory were updated properly with the .profiles. I thought I had done this very same thing last week and it didn't work. Apparently not or some "devine intervention" prevailed. The power of prayer. Works for me .Thanks again.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

dh_installlisting

DH_INSTALLLISTING(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      DH_INSTALLLISTING(1)

NAME

       dh_installlisting - install .listing files to be used by desktop-profiles package

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installlisting [debhelper options] [filename(s)]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installlisting is a debhelper program that handles installing listing files used by the desktop-profiles package into the correct
       location in package builddirectories (NOTE: this command is provided by the desktop-profiles package, so don't forget to build-depends on
       it). It also updates the cache of profile assignments (when it exists) to reflect the added metadata.

       If a file named debian/package.listing exists (or debian/listing in case of the main package) it is installed in etc/desktop-profiles. In
       addition any files given as argument will be installed in etc/desktop-profiles as package_file.listing. The format of .listing files is
       described in desktop-profiles(7).

       A dependancy on desktop-profiles will be added to misc:Depends by using this script.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7) desktop-profiles(7) update-profile-cache(1)

AUTHOR

       Bart Cornelis  (cobaco) <cobaco@skolelinux.no>

perl v5.14.2							    2006-12-13						      DH_INSTALLLISTING(1)
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