Subject: Re: [vserver] incompatible new vserver guest layout
From: Steve Dommett <steve@st4vs.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:11:12 +0100

On Monday 08 September 2008, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Has anyone an idea how that could happen? I packed up the old
> (sarge) vserver guest using tar zcvf. I built a new server using
When moving VServers between hosts I use tar's --numeric-owner 
and --preserve-permissions flags.  If you're not moving between hosts (where 
the mapping of user/group IDs may differ) I doubt this will improve matters 
for you.

A quick fix would be to run 'postfix set-permissions' as root from within the 
guest...

Cheers,
  Steve.