when you FTP the files over --- did you reset their permissions like they were in the DataGen box?

f yes, try recopying the files again a little bit differently ... tar all the necessary files/directories in the old box, compress the tar file and then FTP it over to your FreeBSD box ... uncompress, untar and try again ... if still not working, make sure the account that owns the files/directories exist in the BSD box --- fix as required ...