Hi, I know tar version 1.25 sporadically fail to untar symlinks under cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00335.html I switch to an older tar version (1.23) and everything is working perfectly. Since this is a critical bug (tar is practically unusable) - I think you should consider switch to an older tar version in the default cygwin installation. Yoni. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple