I have a problem when creating vservers from template using the util-vserver tools, perhaps someone else has already fixed this: The template tar has correct uid/gid: tar --numeric-owner -tjvf ../vs-ubuntu710-minimal-2007-11-27.tar.bz2 | grep var/lock/logcheck drwxr-xr-x 103/109 0 2007-10-15 17:28 ./var/lock/logcheck/ After importing the uid/gid are wrong: vserver-build -n - --hostname vs-test -m template -n vs-test -- -t vs-ubuntu710-minimal-2007-11-27.tar.bz2 ls -aln vs-test/var/lock/logcheck/ drwxr-xr-x 2 102 109 1 2007-10-15 17:28 . drwxrwxrwt 3 0 0 16 2007-10-15 17:29 .. On vserver utils .213 this workaround helped, but now it doesn't: Change: /usr/lib/util-vserver/util-vserver-vars _TAR="/bin/tar --numeric-owner" Now after machine upgrade (ubuntu 710, util-vserver 30.214, kernel 2.6.22.12-vs2.2.0.5) this setting is ignored (ps during extract, uses tar -x): root@localhost:/data/vservers# ps auxw | grep tar root 18367 0.1 0.0 108 28 pts/2 S+ 14:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/vnamespace --new -- /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build -n - --hostname vs-test -m template -n vs-test -- -t vs-ubuntu710-minimal-2007-11-27.tar.bz2 root 18369 0.2 0.0 4276 1796 pts/2 S+ 14:15 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build -n - --hostname vs-test -m template -n vs-test -- -t vs-ubuntu710-minimal-2007-11-27.tar.bz2 root 18403 0.4 0.0 2900 596 pts/2 S+ 14:15 0:00 /bin/cat /data/vservers/vs-ubuntu710-minimal-2007-11-27.tar.bz2 root 18405 5.2 0.0 3464 1092 pts/2 S+ 14:15 0:00 tar -x The only possible workaround until now is to create a tar shellscript: #!/bin/bash exec /bin/tar --numeric-owner $ and export PATH=.:$PATH before executing the build command Any idea?