Greetings; I'm attempting to setup an rsync backup of the emc2 directory of this install but am running into permission problems. Having mounted the share with samba, I moved the password file rsync uses to /etc/rsync on the box, doing mkdirs as I went since the rsync dir didn't exist in the as installed state for bdi-4.30. I've also made a softlink from /etc/rc1.d/S50rsync to /etc/init.d/rsync and started the daemon. Now I'd like to run the backup as the user that normally runs emc since apparently root isn't to be trusted and rsync returns a no permission error when told to be root, but even as root, an lsattr returns only bad flag errors, and a chown returns a "no permissions" error to change the ownership of that password file. How do I get around this, I'm quite used to root being all powerfull on all my machines. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.