On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Christopher Allen Wing wrote: .. snipped .. > tar should work okay, I think; by default it uses textual user names > instead of numeric UIDs. Not true. All the kernels I download from a certain local mirror are owned by the local user 'tarabas' since the uid happens to be the same with those on the mirror site. So numeric uids. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/