Peter,

It depends on what you mean by "cloning". What exact command/operations
you did?

BTW, do you mean OpenVZ or Virtuozzo?

Thanks,
Kirill



Peter Machell wrote:
> After cloning a Debian host, I found everything working except MySQL.
> 
> I had to chown its binaries, databases and log folder back to mysql  
> from root.
> 
> Is this normal and should I expect other permissions to have changed?  
> When copying the VZ does the ownership of files take on whatever  
> matches the UID on the host system?
> 
> regards,
> Peter.