1) I thought of that, but what password does Portage give it (if any)? If you su from root it wont ask for a password! But you'll have to make sure the ftp has a real shell. It may have say /bin/false for security reasons. In the short term changing it to bash is fine.
If I change it, will it affect the use of my system at all? > 2) Never used strace. I was under the impression that it was a > debugger, and I don't know enough about programming to be able to > understand that. But looking into it now, it appears it may be used > more simply to give a better idea of what's going on. I'll give it a try. > Its mostly unrecognisable to me, but sometimes I find useful information in there, such as a failed attempt to open a file. > 3) I'll have a look at http replicator, thanks. > > NP.
