We have been moving accounts from one server to another and found that some of the accounts have problems with things like frontpage and yabb.
It seems that if an account was originally on one partition (home) and then "rearranged" to another (home2) and later on pkgacct and moved to a new server with a home2 partition, some of the things in that account still have
"home" as the pathing. Frontpage extensions are all screwed up and if you try to uninstall yabb (perhaps other things as well) it will say something like it cannot change to the folder "/home/username/public_html/whatever".
It seems that when the account on the old server is "rearranged" there is still some pathing pointing to "home" but on the old server there is a link like "[email protected]" on the /home partition which links to "home2" or whatever the new rearranged location is. But if you move the account to a new server with a "home2" it does not also copy the "[email protected]" link or whatever it is so now the accounts fail when it depends on that.
"/home" shows something like this on the OLD server(just noting the perms and filename):
lrwxrwxrwx --- --- --- --- username -> /home2/username
that does not exist on the new server.
Not sure if that makes sense, but I was wondering if anyone else experienced this and what can be done to avoid having this problem in the future as we move accounts to newer servers that may have been re-arranged years before on older servers.
Will simply making a new link like the above on "/home" fix this ? Is there a script to do this
or will some command line stuff do it ?
It seems that if an account was originally on one partition (home) and then "rearranged" to another (home2) and later on pkgacct and moved to a new server with a home2 partition, some of the things in that account still have
"home" as the pathing. Frontpage extensions are all screwed up and if you try to uninstall yabb (perhaps other things as well) it will say something like it cannot change to the folder "/home/username/public_html/whatever".
It seems that when the account on the old server is "rearranged" there is still some pathing pointing to "home" but on the old server there is a link like "[email protected]" on the /home partition which links to "home2" or whatever the new rearranged location is. But if you move the account to a new server with a "home2" it does not also copy the "[email protected]" link or whatever it is so now the accounts fail when it depends on that.
"/home" shows something like this on the OLD server(just noting the perms and filename):
lrwxrwxrwx --- --- --- --- username -> /home2/username
that does not exist on the new server.
Not sure if that makes sense, but I was wondering if anyone else experienced this and what can be done to avoid having this problem in the future as we move accounts to newer servers that may have been re-arranged years before on older servers.
Will simply making a new link like the above on "/home" fix this ? Is there a script to do this
or will some command line stuff do it ?
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