diff --git a/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh b/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh
--- a/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh
+++ b/tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
 	# are installed by this point, but are later in the process,
 	# the symlink not being here causes problems. It never hurts
 	# to have the symlink in error though.
-	ln -s ../../etc/local usr/local/etc
+	tgt_dir2symlink usr/local/etc ../../etc/local 0755
 
 	for d in var etc
 	do