>>>>> "Alan" == Alan L Tyree <Alan> writes: Alan> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 11:42, Peter Chubb wrote: <SNIP> >> 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. Alan> Thanks Peter. I'll have a look, but none of the links are Alan> cross-directory. A sample is:
Alan> [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]$ ls -sal banking.html 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 alant Alan> alant 27 Oct 4 2002 banking.html -> /home/alant/www/banking.htm Alan> and it looks exactly the same on the Sun except the links don't Alan> work until I redefine them manually. Exactly -- they're absolute links (the target of the link begins with a slash). If it said: banking.html -> ./banking.htm it'd all work. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
