Moving ISPconfig

[Ovidiu]

you are right about those tutorials, the one you gave and the one I found are almost copies of each other.

About manually moving:

can you give me some hints:

- for example how do I get a list of all installed applications? there has to be a dpkg or apt option to get this list, so I could at least duplicate this.
- about duplicating settings as I am not sure I can duplicate everything manually, what needs to be copied over except for the ispconfig stuff (which is already covered further up in this thread) - /etc /usr /var maybe?
- anything which you strongly discourage me copying over?

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tenaka

- for example how do I get a list of all installed applications? there has to be a dpkg or apt option to get this list, so I could at least duplicate this.

Run

dpkg -l

Originally Posted by Tenaka

- about duplicating settings as I am not sure I can duplicate everything manually, what needs to be copied over except for the ispconfig stuff (which is already covered further up in this thread) - /etc /usr /var maybe?

That depends where your configuration files are. Most of them are in /etc.
The most important parts are covered here: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...88&postcount=2

[Ovidiu]

concerning

/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group

want to have a good laugh?

I copied them over and now I cannot login any longer as I do not remember my root password I was using one of my users which had full acces via sudoers, but when copying those files over to the new system I forgot to copy the sudoers file, now I can login with my user, but no longer do sudo su, no root password, bad thing :-( I guess I'll set it up again, good practice

[till]

If you have direct access to your server, you might use a Live-CD like knoppix to boot your server, mount your HD and edit the password in /etc/shadow.

[Ovidiu]

I already read the : recover lost root password threads around here and I tried the lilo trick, before booting sequence, whatever but I failed yesterday, it booted too fast for me to press any key....

anyway thx for helping :-)

[falko]

Do you have a rescue system on your server? Boot into it, mount your hard disk and give yourself a new root password.

[Ovidiu]

ok, I mounted my /dev/md1 and tried chpasswd as well as passwd but I get this:

passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module

Do you mean me to manually enter the password into /etc/passwd ? I guess I would have to enter it md5 encrypted there? Or how exactly do I achieve this?

###edit###

I answered my own question:

mount -t ext3 /dev/md1 /mnt/
root@h898552:~# cd /mnt/
root@h898552:/mnt#
root@h898552:/# chroot /mnt
h898552:/#
h898552:/# passwd
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
h898552:/#

and again I learned something new :-) I REALLY DID IT!!!

[falko]

Yes, you need to chroot.

[Ovidiu]

some more problems:

in your post further up you give a link to how to dump and restore mysql database.

you should mention that one needs to create a db by that name before one can import. at least iti did not work for me.

next one ist this, I get an error whe ntrying to import:

h898552:~/exports# mysql -h localhost -u root -p****** web3_db1 <
web3_db1.sql
ERROR 1064 at line 12: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the
manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax
to use near 'NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY ip (ip(15))
) TYPE=MyISAM'
h898552:~/exports#

what could this be? this is my most important database...

###edit###

how can I do this:

have a look at the users and db table and add the user /db lines that don't exist on the new server but on the old server.

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tenaka

next one ist this, I get an error whe ntrying to import:

Do you use the same MySQL version on both systems?