On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:48:17PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I do think the man file for cleanlinks should include a warning.
Yeah, it probably should (I wrote it in a spare ten minutes or so some
months back). File a bug against xutils.
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:24:50PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Also sprach Colin Watson (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 07:21:57PM +0100):
> > It's a utility to reverse the effects of lndir, which is mainly intended
> > for building cheap copies of source trees. See their respective man
> > pages.
>
>
Colin Watson writes:
> I wrote [cleanlinks] in a spare ten minutes or so some months back
Did you intend it to remove all symlinks not pointing to ordinary files?
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Also sprach Alan Shutko (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 01:20:57PM -0500):
> "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ># Remove dangling symlinks and empty directories from a shadow link tree
> ># (created with lndir).
>
> > What could be the purpose of this script?
>
> As described in
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:48:11PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Actually, that script removes every symbolic link that does not test
> successfully as a regular file. Yes, that test will follow the symbolic
> link; but, it will only check whether or not the destination is a
> regular file.
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 19:50, John Hasler wrote:
> Anthony Campbell writes:
>> ...also removed /usr/bin/X11 which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin
>> and is pointed to by /etc/X11/X...
>
> That sounds like a bug.
...which I just reported:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=20436
Also sprach Colin Watson (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 07:21:57PM +0100):
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:48:11PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> > Actually, that script removes every symbolic link that does not test
> > successfully as a regular file. Yes, that test will follow the symbolic
> > link; but,
"Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
># Remove dangling symlinks and empty directories from a shadow link tree
># (created with lndir).
> What could be the purpose of this script?
As described in the script and manpage, it's to fix up a shadow link
tree that was created with
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:57:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Colin Watson writes:
> > I wrote it in a spare ten minutes or so some months back
>
> I wrote:
> > Did you intend it to remove all symlinks not pointing to ordinary files?
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Colin Watson writes:
> > I wrote [cleanlinks] in a spare ten minutes or so some months back
>
> Did you intend it to remove all symlinks not pointing to ordinary files?
Eh? I didn't say I wrote cleanlinks; I said I wrote the man page.
mds writes:
> This is plain scary !?!?
The thing is dangerously broken. File a bug.
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On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Never do this!
>
> I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to
> do!
>
> Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't
> know how long it will take to get things back working; only just
> restor
On 06 Aug 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Never do this!
> >
> > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to
> > do!
> >
> > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't
> > know how long it wi
Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100):
> Never do this!
>
> I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do!
>
> Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know
> how long it will take to get things back working; only jus
Hello there!
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 17:10, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Never do this!
>
> I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to
> do!
>
> Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't
> know how long it will take to get things back working; o
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:41:43PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Colin Watson writes:
> I wrote it in a spare ten minutes or so some months back
I wrote:
> Did you intend it to remove all symlinks not pointing to ordinary files?
Colin Watson writes:
> I didn't say I wrote cleanlinks; I said I wrote t
Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100):
> Never do this!
>
> I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do!
>
> Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know
> how long it will take to get things back working; only jus
Anthony Campbell writes:
> ...also removed /usr/bin/X11 which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin and is
> pointed to by /etc/X11/X...
That sounds like a bug.
> The modem also would not work, I can't remember why (something to do with
> /dev/ttyS0).
Perhaps you had /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ttyS0 a
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