Everything should be backed up to cloaked now in the directory: /backup/pedro/daily/ Sneakums: I used rsync --existing --number-ids to fix the permission issues we were facing earlier. Create a screen, and sudo su - to root on cloaked. Then, as root: copy the config files in ~pedro/faux-flynn/ to their proper locations (since they were overwritten by the backup -- basically all ip changes). cp -a /dev/* /backup/pedro/daily/dev/ run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (These should be good now since no new backups will be done until I am in LA) chroot /backup/pedro/daily/ add /sbin to root's path (mostly for start-stop-daemon): PATH=$PATH:/sbin hash -r Then, as root in the chroot: cd / mount -t proc proc proc mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts -o rw,gid=5,mode=620 sshd "on cloaked" should be running on port 23. make sure that /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the faux-flynn sshd running on port 22 and start'er up. I ssh in as pedro@flynn for the rest of this, but you could do it as the chrooted root on cloaked if you want: /etc/init.d/exim4 start /etc/init.d/apache start /etc/init.d/bind start /etc/init.d/inetd start (imap on localhost for squirrelmail) /etc/init.d/ntpdate start /etc/init.d/cron start /etc/init.d/spamassassin start /etc/init.d/mailman start /etc/init.d/mysql start /etc/init.d/urandom start ... I think that's about it. Once the first steps are taken care of, the rest is pretty easy. This box is in Ben's office in Chicago on their backup network pipe (a DSL). He is super busy and so crashing the box and needing his intervention and setting all this stuff back up again is really not one of my short term goals, so let's try not to crash flynn in the next week. This goal is made harder by the fact that faux-flynn only has 126M RAM. I'm sure some weird problems are bound to show up soon, but who knows what they will be! Call me if you have problems or need me to call ben: 773-318-4342. And thanks for your help! Peter -- Peter A. H. Peterson, technician and musician. ---=[ http://tastytronic.net/~pedro/ ]=---