Re: [SM-USERS] Inventing the wheel?

[Jonathan A. <jo...@sq...>]

Hello Tony,

[..]

> But the same 192 users have flat-file based user data and as soon as I
> switch over, all their data info will have to be reentered. So, (since
> they're all in LDAP-based users) I write a shell script (bash, Openldap
> tools, awk, sed) to cat their present settings, and mail them that on
> Sunday next, their SM data settings will be void and will have to be
> re-entered, "here are their present settings".

[..]

> Anybody ever had to do this before and has a prescribed solution?

I remember somebody had wrote a perl script a while back to go through
the prefs files, and convert them over. You might be able to search
gmane to find the details. If you cannot track them down, let me know,
and I'll see if I can knock together a quick script to handle it.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss <jo...@sq...>
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