>>>>> "Alan" == Alan L Tyree <Alan> writes:

Alan> The problem: when I tar and move everything from my home machine
Alan> (RH8) to the server
Alan> The symbolic links appear to be there, but they don't work. I
Alan> have to rebuild them by hand each time.

Where do the symlinks point?  If they're absolute symbolic links
you'll get that behaviour.  Use the `symlinks' perl script to convert
from absolute to relative links before you tar up the directories.

Peter 
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