All, please take a look at the following issue. https://github.com/openrc/openrc/issues/195 The first part of the fix is committed to master as shown on the issue; checkpath should *never* follow symbolic links when changing ownership, so I have moved to the lchown call instead of chown. However, I'm not sure how to deal with the hard link issue in a way that will not break service scripts. If anyone has any suggestions for this, let me know. Thanks, William