Hi, Recently I noticed several files and directories under /usr/ports on my CRUX box owned by non-privileged users. Moreover, some of them were owned by nonexistent users. It looked strange to me and after some thoughts I found the reason of that. These directories have been created using download commands from http://crux.nu/portdb/ as the super-user. For example, rsync -aqz crux.nu::ports/crux-2.6/opt/git/ git The problem is in the -a option of rsync. It includes -u and -g options. So when the command is being executed as the super-user it preserve owner and group of the transferred files. Such behavior doesn't look like the one that user expects, as the source and target hosts have thier own user accounts. So from my point of view the following command is more appropriate: rsync -rlptDqz crux.nu::ports/crux-2.6/opt/git/ git Yes, it looks cumbersome, but at least it does exactly what user expects. -- Vitaly Sinilin <vs@kp4.ru>