From: "Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com" <Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com> > I then have a script that is run as the deployer user to checkout config > files from svn and copies it to /etc/httpd directory in the following > way: > cd /tmp/versioned-config; > cp -Rfp --backup --suffix=.$(date +%F_%T) apache/etc/ / > > However when I do that the ownership of the config files changes to > deployer.deployer and it looses the special permissions... I don't think that would be possible/secure... That would mean that the user 'deployer' could "create" files owned by someone else... Maybe try with something like the group sticky bit... JD