Topic: What gets put on the reinstallation disk?

[Greg Brooks]

Quick question: Will the automagically-created reinstallation disk include customizations such as:

* virtual mail user accounts
* pop-before-smtp changes

If not, what's my best bet for comprehensively "cloning" a machine's config to a new box (but with different hardware specs)?

thanks,
G.

[Nathan Fowler]

Greg, I can answer the one about pop-before-smtp:  No, not that I know of.  The changes made by installing pop-before-smtp are in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  The binary and logfiles are stored in /var/pop-before-smtp, this directory was created during the installation and it is doubtful that it would be backed up unless a full backup was performed.  Not to worry about pop-before-smtp; you can simply reinstall it on the new box with no problems.  All local system parameters/configuration settings are detected by the program.

Hope this helped,
Nathan