Box is Debian Potato. Note the cvs.tar.gz file ( in case it isn't obvious ).
If I'm not mistaken, I've just "taken ownership" of the file from root. Am I correct? Adam adam@pear:~$ cd /var/cvs adam@pear:/var/cvs$ ls -l total 67440 drwxrwxr-x 10 cvs cvs 4096 Apr 30 13:28 APCOT drwxrwxr-x 3 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 18 13:50 CVSROOT drwxrwxr-x 2 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 12 16:29 DowJones drwxrwxr-x 6 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 FortyTwo drwxrwxr-x 5 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 MARTINTEST drwxrwxr-x 9 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 VoiceXML -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68959080 Apr 30 17:08 cvs.tar.gz adam@pear:/var/cvs$ mv cvs.tar.gz ~ adam@pear:/var/cvs$ cd ~ adam@pear:~$ ls -l total 67508 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 68959080 Apr 30 17:08 cvs.tar.gz drwxr-sr-x 5 adam adam 4096 Apr 20 11:24 cvsroot -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 582 Feb 21 10:55 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:00 ip -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:07 ip2 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:18 ip3 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 11316 Mar 20 16:19 ip4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 1241 Mar 20 16:20 mail -rw------- 1 adam adam 7021 Mar 13 16:03 mbox -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 14601 Mar 20 16:27 now -rw-r--r-- 1 adam adam 5694 Mar 20 16:34 person adam@pear:~$ cd /var/cvs adam@pear:/var/cvs$ ls -l total 24 drwxrwxr-x 10 cvs cvs 4096 Apr 30 13:28 APCOT drwxrwxr-x 3 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 18 13:50 CVSROOT drwxrwxr-x 2 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 12 16:29 DowJones drwxrwxr-x 6 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 FortyTwo drwxrwxr-x 5 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 MARTINTEST drwxrwxr-x 9 cvs cvs 4096 Mar 11 13:27 VoiceXML adam@pear:/var/cvs$ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug