Cent OS migration

[Brian K. White]

On 5/9/2011 2:20 PM, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Okay - the time is approaching where we're going to switch from SCO
>> OpenServer to CentOS.
>> I have a few questions.
>>
>> 1.  Is there a migration tool that will take all my existing users and
>> 'import' them as users on CentOS?
>>
> Yes. Probably easiest to use is the export batch file function in Webmin.
> So you would want Webmin on both boxes.
>
> OR learn how to export the accounts from the command line.
>
> REGARDLESS OF HOW EVIL WEBMIN IS.....
>
> You most definately will want to make sure your user id's are identical
> between the two systems,
> otherwise stuff like @CB will have wrong information.
>
> http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/indexget.pl?arg=Linux
>
> Has good information.
>
> Also, do you have any expertise maintaing a linux box? If you want
> something closer
> to SCO in mentality, FreeBSD and SCO have the same grandparents. Linux
> is like
> the cute girl that moved into town. Stuff isn't always where you expect
> to find it,
> and you may get a surprise if you reach into the wrong place.
>
> I know it seems evil to support SCO, but you can buy VMware images that will
> run on the newest hardware.

You can?

Last I knew you can only rent them and they will stop working once the 
current lease is up. I would only use osr507v under those terms for 2 
purposes:

1: As a test platform to figure out how to work around the license manager.

2: As a temporary emergency stop-gap while I spend every waking minute 
migrating off of it.

But then again now that someone else bought sco, the rules may change 
again and who knows they might become good again. Maybe after they've 
had a little while to put things back together they'll come out with a 
new osr5 or osr6 product that is better supported and offers sensible 
usage terms. That's what they promise in their initial announcements anyway.

-- 
bkw