Tsutomu wrote: > rh9 to rh9 should work out fine...not too sure about fc1 to fc2 > however. there may be some changes in uids which i not too sure about > you may want to dig a bit deeper in that particular situation. find / -nogroup -o -nouser (as root) will find any files which don't have a valid user or group. The advice to leave system users alone is good. If you combine the two, you should find all the problems. James. -- E-mail address: james | "When I hear the history of some of the more ugly @westexe.demon.co.uk | European cities, with "... destroyed in 14xx, burnt in | 16xx..." I want to ask why they keep rebuilding it and | if they can't get the hint." -- Lieven Marchand