On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:15:11PM +0200, Andy Pieters wrote: > > some purposes, that may be enough. What are you trying to accomplish? > When making the distribution package for the software I want some files to > be set to a specific owner before putting them in the package. That way > when the end user installs it, I can be sure that those files have proper > permissions. Use RPM -- it can handle this. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.