> chown-ing might help ... Yes sure. I can even have /etc/rc.local do it for me every time the system is rebooted. However, I am interested in knowing the root cause. Nikolay Kichukov wrote: > Hi Declan, > I am having also host and guest debian based. My /var/run/utmp in the > guest is also owned by the group voice. Coincidence? Never noticed > that before ;-> > > chown-ing might help ... > > Cheers, > -Nik > > > > > Declan Mullen wrote: >> Hi >> >> My guest has a "/var/run/utmp" file that is owned by group "voice", >> but it should be owned by group "utmp". Any suggestions on how I fix >> this ? >> >> My host's /var/run/utmp is owned by "utmp" just as expected. The >> group ids for "voice" and "utmp" in the host are the same as they are >> in the guest. >> >> Both host and guest are Debian Lenny. The host's kernel is Lenny's >> "linux-source-2.6.26" (version "2.6.26-13") with Lenny's vserver >> patches applied from "linux-patch-debian-2.6.26" (version >> "2.6.26-13"). The host's util-vserver package is Sid's, ie version >> "0.30.216~r2772-6". The host's "vserver-debiantools" package is >> version "0.6.3". >> >> The guest was created via: >> >> newvserver --vsroot /var/lib/vservers/ --hostname maxv1 --domain >> jadplace.com \ >> --ip 192.168.0.121/24 --fakeinit --mirror >> "ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian" --verbose >> >> Many thanks, >> Declan >> > > > >