Probably the problem that into symbolic link you have absolute and not relative path? Can you check this by "ls -l"?
Rgds, Vitaly > -------Original Message------- > From: Ori Idan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Symbolic links at tar file > Sent: 18 Feb '06 18:11 > > I have a source tree which some of the files are actually symbolic links > to other files in the same tree. > > I compress the tree using tar cjf file.tar.bz2 dir > > When I extract the files to the same machine everything works fine. > > When I extract the files to another machine with same directory > strucuture (the directories before the source tree) everything works > fine but extracting it on another machine with different path it seems > the symbolic links are not created. > > > For example: > > On my machine the source tree is at: /home/ori/stree > > On the other machine the source tree is at /home/user1/stree > > > If on the other machine I would extract it to /home/ori, everything > works fine. > > > It seems as if tar works with absolute path names for the symbolic links. > > > Anyone knows how to tell it to work with relational names? > > > -- > > Ori Idan > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
