Thanks. That did the trick. I made the link. Thanks for the info about cp. I was wondering how to copy home directories without the . files. <div>On 05/11/2007, James P. Kinney III <<a href="mailto:jkinney@localnetsolutions.com">jkinney@localnetsolutions.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Since all of the config stuff is in . files, copy all of the files over and that won't break the new configs. cp -arp <oldhome> <newhome> assuming a mounted old home that is accessable to root. You can use: cd /home for name in `ls -1` do ln -s /<oldhome>/$name /home/$name/Desktop/Old_Files done On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:12 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote: > We migrated from K12ltsp to Feisty. It seemed cleaner (config files > etc) to make new home directories, give them a week or so to copy what > they want then delete the old one. We still have a backup if > necessary. > > On 05/11/2007, Peter Hartmann <<a href="mailto:ascensiontech@gmail.com"> ascensiontech@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Why the new homes? What was wrong with mounting old ones on > the new server? > > $USER is the environment variable for the current user. > > Peter > > On 11/4/07, Krsnendu dasa <<a href="mailto:krsnendu108@gmail.com">krsnendu108@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > We have moved our users to a new server. We have created new > home > > directories for each user. > > Users would like to access their previous home directories > to access files. > > Can someone help me with a script to create a link on the > desktop to their > > old files. > > > > I have the basic logic of it but don't know the commands. > > > > The script will be something like: > > > > For all users do this > > ln -s /home/old/home/<username> > > /home/<username>/desktop/oldhome > > > > Just need to figure out how to get the user name into the > command and > > recurse the usernames. > > Probably the easiest way is to go through the /home > directory and strip off > > the /home/ part to get the username. > > > > Can anyone help me out? It seems simple in theory. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > K12OSN mailing list > > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> > > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see < <a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> -- James P. Kinney III CEO & Director of Engineering Local Net Solutions,LLC 770-493-8244 <a href="http://www.localnetsolutions.com"> http://www.localnetsolutions.com</a> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <<a href="mailto:jkinney@localnetsolutions.com">jkinney@localnetsolutions.com</a>> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>