On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:17, Armin Joellenbeck wrote: > On Monday 17 November 2003 16:01, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > hi, > > > > Cron is telling me I have a lot of dangling symlinks. > > > symlink | dpkg -S > > --------------------------------------+-------- > > /usr/share/man/man1/jar.1.gz | fastjar > > /usr/share/man/man1/appletviewer.1.gz | ? > > /usr/share/man/man1/javap.1.gz | ? > > /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz | ? > > /usr/share/man/man1/rmiregistry.1.gz | ? > > /usr/share/man/man1/serialver.1.gz | ? > > > > What procedure should I follow to track down the package(s) > > responsible, and determine if a bug-filing is in order? > > > Hello Jonathan, > > I don't know if a bug-filing is in order. But I have the same problem > too. Because nobody else on the list is answering, how about simply > filing a bug report against the package indicated by "dpkg -S" and see > what happens. Might be you sum up the answer of the package maintainer > here.
"Cron Daemon" telling me from time to time: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7.gz is a dangling symlink ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIRC I already removed some dangling links manually, if my notes are correct: The following 2 were what I call looping links, i.e. both of them being links were pointing to each other: /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
