On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:04, Troy Engel wrote: > > good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was > > the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to > > use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box? > > The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID. > Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like: > > rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user at host:/home > > This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.) > you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing > slash on the source /home/, that's important. Or, you can cd to /home before starting and use '.' as the source so you don't have to remember what the trailing / does: cd /home rsync -avz -e ssh --delete . user at host:/home And the -z (compress) is probably only worthwhile on slow connections. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com