Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Oct 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. > > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system > > whose effects are so trivial and harm

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system > whose effects are so trivial and harmless that nobody bothers to fix > it since there a

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi all, > > English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means? It's 'hanging' with some suggestion of looseness, chaos, not neat and tidy. You can hang a weight on a piece of string, but if you cut

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi all, > > English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means? > I get the following errors emailed via cron every day: Just hanging off into nowhere.

Re: dangling symlink in man-db

2003-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:31:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I clean this up? > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:22:39PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:44 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > [snip] > > > Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a > > > strange name... > > > > Yes it exists: it says you that the program is undocumented :) > > not very

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:44 pm, Michel Loos wrote: [snip] > > > > Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a > > strange name... > > Yes it exists: it says you that the program is undocumented :) > not very usefull: kdm as no man documentation anyway > really--no docum

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:37 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a > strange name... nope. you're right, damn strange. i've done a bug report. according to dpkg -C, everything is hunky-dory on my box. there was nothing in the previ

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Loos
Em Ter, 2002-02-12 às 22:37, Ron Johnson escreveu: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > > > > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > how does one go about

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > > > e.g.: > > > # man kdm > >

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:55 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:00:08PM -0800, ben wrote: > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > e.g.: > > # man kdm > > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > No manual entry for kdm

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:00:08PM -0800, ben wrote: > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > e.g.: > # man kdm > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > No manual entry for kdm Probably worth reporting as a bug - either in kdm itself (if you have it cu

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread ben
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > > > e.g.: > > # man kdm > > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > No manual ent

Re: dangling symlink

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink? > > e.g.: > # man kdm > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > No manual entry for kdm maybe someone deleted the file /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz (