I really can't believe this, am I the only one that mirrors CentOS content using an unpriviledged user instead of root (and notices this) ? This is not the first time something like this happens and probably it won't be the last if you do not make something about it. Yes, I know you are copying those files from a read-only media but this is not an excuse for not setting the "writable" permission later. <--- cut here ---> rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/3.6/os/s390x/images/ [...] dr-xr-xr-x 4096 2005/10/03 10:27:56 . lrwxr-xr-x 23 2005/10/12 21:21:33 HEADER.html lrwxr-xr-x 25 2005/10/12 21:21:33 HEADER.images -r--r--r-- 667 2005/10/03 12:03:26 TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- 44 2005/10/03 10:27:56 generic.prm -r--r--r-- 5913337 2005/10/03 10:27:53 initrd.img -r-xr-xr-x 4046592 2005/10/03 10:27:56 kernel.img </--- cut here ---> Mihai