On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 10:08:59AM -0700, Tonnesen Steve wrote: > Why is conversion of old systems so difficult? If mail changed from uid 8 > to uid 7, for example, wouldn't: > > find -uid 8 -exec chown mail \{\} \; > find -gid 8 -exec chgrp mail \{\} \; That's stupid. It would traverse the whole filesystem for each change. We would need a little program looking at each file and adjusting the permissions to the new settings. cu Torsten