diff --git a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/imager_prepare.py b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/imager_prepare.py
index eb4dd79e1facc712365083a3a10a9ff001fee90b..b590cc806804ce0c8ed8fcfcb2faf426f413ccad 100644
--- a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/imager_prepare.py
+++ b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/imager_prepare.py
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ class imager_prepare(LOFARnodeTCP):
                                    "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
                 if self.globalfs or input_item.host == "localhost":
                     # symlinking is enough
-                    command = ["ln", "-sfT", "{0}".format(input_item.file),
-                                           "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
+                    command = ["ln", "-sf", "{0}".format(input_item.file),
+                                      "-t", "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
 
                 self.logger.debug("executing: " + " ".join(command))
 
diff --git a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/long_baseline.py b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/long_baseline.py
index 42f667a80e3366d7aee7404583a0e272865d805a..282255861a791d3a797f41745a0409464aa55801 100644
--- a/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/long_baseline.py
+++ b/CEP/Pipeline/recipes/sip/nodes/long_baseline.py
@@ -200,8 +200,8 @@ class long_baseline(LOFARnodeTCP):
                                  "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
               if self.globalfs or input_item.host == "localhost":
                   # symlinking is enough
-                  command = ["ln", "-sfT", "{0}".format(input_item.file),
-                                         "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
+                  command = ["ln", "-sf", "{0}".format(input_item.file),
+                                    "-t", "{0}".format(processed_ms_dir)]
 
               self.logger.debug("executing: " + " ".join(command))