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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How Do I FTP System Files to Different Server? Post 303020987 by spock9458 on Wednesday 1st of August 2018 05:51:12 PM
Old 08-01-2018
I am making progress, but it looks like I still need some help to get my legacy unix program to work. I have copied most of the files over from the physical to the VM. I left out the /etc and the /var directories entirely, and I think that one of those contain files that I need to make things work.


In my first attempt I did copy the /var directory over - about the third one I copied, and after that my VM would not work correctly. I could not login and so I had to start over again from scratch, so I'm leery about copying that directory over again.


I suspect that I need numerous files from the /etc directory, but I don't think I'm supposed to copy the /etc/conf because I was told not to do that before. My problem is I don't know how to create the cpio archive, or extract it, without including that directory.


At least some of the things I'm missing are the user accounts and groups that are present in the physical system. For our legacy program, we need to have user accounts that have a certain Login Shell, Home Directory and Login Group. The Login Group I'm supposed to use is "genesis" and that is not one of the available groups when I go to create a new user account. So I know these things live somewhere, probably in the /etc directory, because when I restored my complete system from backup tape last year (to the current physical system) all of the user accounts were there.


If anyone has any ideas to help me copy over the remaining files I need from /etc, or if I do need some files from the /var directory, I would appreciate greatly some advice to finish this up. It seems so close!
 

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uucp(1c)																  uucp(1c)

Name
       uucp, uulog, uuname - unix to unix copy

Syntax
       uucp [option...] source-file...	destination-file

       uulog [option...]

       uuname [option...]

Description
       The  command  copies  files  named by the source-file arguments to the destination-file argument.  A file name either may be a path name on
       your machine or may have the form

	      system-name!pathname

       where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names which knows about.  Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part  will
       be expanded on the appropriate system.

       Pathnames  may  be  a  full  pathname, a pathname preceded by ~user, where user is a userid on the specified system and is replaced by that
       user's login directory, or anything else prefixed by the current directory.

       If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system, the copy will fail.  If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of
       the  source-file  name is used.	If a simple ~user destination is inaccessible to data is copied to a spool directory and the user is noti-
       fied by

       The command preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives 0666 read and write permissions.  For further information, see

Options
       The following options are interpreted by

       -d Creates all necessary directories for the file copy.

       -c Uses the source file when copying out rather than copying the file to the spool directory.

       -m Sends you mail when the copy is complete.

       -nrec
	  Sends mail to the recipient.

       -W Expands only local files.  Normally files names are prepended with the current working directory if a full path is not  specified.   The
	  -W tells to expand local files only.

       The command prints a summary of and transactions that were recorded in the file

       The options cause to print logging information:

       -ssys
	  Displays information about work involving specified system.

       -uuser
	  Displays information about work involving specified user.

       The command lists the uucp names of known systems.

       -l Lists local system name.

Warnings
       The  domain  of	remotely  accessible  files  can (and for obvious security reasons, usually should) be severely restricted.  You will very
       likely not be able to fetch files by pathname.  Ask a responsible person on the remote system to send them to you.  For the  same  reasons,
       you will probably not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames.

Restrictions
       All files received by will be owned by uucp.
       The  -m	option	will  only work sending files or receiving a single file.  (Receiving multiple files specified by special shell characters
       ?*[] will not activate the -m option.)

Files
       /usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
       /usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
       /etc/acucap - shared autodial modem database

See Also
       mail(1), uux(1c), acucap(5)
       "Uucp Implementation Description," ULTRIX Supplementary Documentation, Vol. III:System Manager

																	  uucp(1c)
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