I'm in process of putting together a public mirror and noticed the ownership on my files seem to keep swapping between uid/gid 502, 503 and I think I've seen 500 as well. The mirror howto suggests using rsync with -aqzH, which of course is going to retain the permissions of the synced files. Do others just put up with the ownership changes or are they splitting up the -a option into only some of its parts? Thanks. Matt Ruzicka Sr. Systems Engineer mruzicka at cisp.com www.cisp.com www.yocolo.com 419.724.5345 : tel 419.867.6913 : fax