Hi gang, I just had an issue with running db-extra: -bash-3.2$ /arch/db-extra Updating DB for extra i686 ==> Processing new/updated packages for repository 'extra'... Checked out revision 3041. Checking SVN for scribus ==> Extracting database to a temporary location... ==> Adding package 'scribus-1.3.3.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' -> Removing existing package 'scribus-1.3.3.11-2'... -> Creating 'desc' db entry... -> Computing md5 checksums... -> Creating 'depends' db entry... ==> Creating updated database file /tmp/db-update.extra-i686.533/build/extra.db.tar.gz No packages to delete Copying new files to '/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/' /bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz': Permission denied /bin/cp: cannot create regular file `/home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz.old': Permission denied Cleaning staging dir Eric just reported that, the db has his user permission, which is why I can't overwrite it: -bash-3.2$ ls -l /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.* -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 412828 Jun 17 22:44 /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 eric users 412653 Jun 17 22:44 /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz.old -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp-extra 320495 May 21 05:36 /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre ftp-extra 3066292 Jun 18 03:57 /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.files.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 aaron ftp-extra 3059214 Jun 17 16:41 /home/ftp/extra/os/i686/extra.files.tar.gz.old bye can anyone with permissions can take care of that? thanks -T