Subj : Conversion from Windows To Linux..
To   : Al Derosa
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Oct 30 2022 11:50:45

  Re: Conversion from Windows To Linux..
  By: Al Derosa to Digital Man on Sun Oct 30 2022 12:08 am

 >  DM> Re: Conversion from Windows To Linux..
 >  DM> By: Al Derosa to All on Sat Oct 29 2022 09:14 pm
 >  >> system? I tried the migration set up by copying the CTRL DATA NODE1
 >  >> and MODS and XTRN directories, but had some issues with errors popping
 >  >> up..
 >
 >  DM> What errors?
 >
 > Not necessarily errors, but binding issues, I watched your video and start
 > it with sudo and it switches over to the sbbs user automatically like it is
 > supposed to, but when I copied those directories over the previous
 > directories it wouldn't switch anymore. Now that I think about it, I am
 > thinking it might have been priveledge issues.. I have a backup of it I
 > might try that again..

You can resolve port binding issues on *nix, a number of ways:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:linux_non-root

This is not really relavent to the migration of your configuration or data from a Windows install however.

 >  DM> The stats are stored in ctrl/csts.* and ctrl/dsts.*, make sure you
 >  DM> copied those files over. If you care about the node statistics, you'll
 >  DM> need to copy those same files from the node directories.
 >  DM> copy those same files from the node directories.
 >
 > Cool, I will do that, I think that is the only thing holding it back now.
 > Appreciate the help.

Sure.
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