[K12OSN] Scripting help make link desktop to old home folder

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 15:18 +1300, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
> 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. 

cp is kind of funny. You have explicitly _include_ the . files. As such,
it has it's uses :)

A second process would be tar and then overwrite the . files from
the /etc/skel . files. If you look in /opt/ltsp/scripts/k12ltsp/ there
are a pair of scripts that will either reconfig an individual user or
everyone. This is a lifesaver for when someone figures out how to remove
all their panels and menus and _then_ discovers they now can'tget
anything done :)  
> 
> On 05/11/2007, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> wrote:
>         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 <ascensiontech at gmail.com>
>         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 <krsnendu108 at gmail.com>
>         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.
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
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