On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:51:28PM -0400, Tinsley, Scott S. (ManTech) CTR wrote: > @ERROR: invalid uid nobody Does your system not have a user "nobody" in the passwd file? You can always set the user via the uid option (e.g. "uid = root") so that rsync doesn't try to switch to the default user of "nobody". ..wayne..