"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned:
> > "Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
> >
> > Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031009 15:32]:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
> > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
> >> few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm sti
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a
lot) foggy on what exactly it's us
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a
>> few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a
>> lot) foggy on what exactly it's used for. For i
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few
> days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy
> on what exactly it's used for. For instance, I have
> /etc/alternatives/vi and /etc/alternatives/e
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:09:12:03:32-0600] scribed:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 08:35 GMT, Colin Watson penned:
> > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> >> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
> >> corner of dpkg p
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>>
>> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
>
> Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge on
> fraying rope" ...
>
>:-)
>
>
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 08:35 GMT, Colin Watson penned:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
>> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
>> corner of dpkg package that is /usr/sbin/update-alternatives -- why
>> is that?
>
> It doesn't help
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question
Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge
on fraying rope" ...
:-)
Daniel
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark
> corner of dpkg package that is /usr/sbin/update-alternatives -- why is
> that?
It doesn't help that update-alternatives has historically been buggy and
prone
> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz@ /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish8.1.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish.1.gz@
>
> My question: what exactly is tixindex an alternative *for*? Am I safe
> just blowing away both those symlinks?
First of all, a dangling symlink is at best useless, and
On 08 Oct 2003 19:35:26 +0200, JG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
penned:
> Hi,
>
> "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
>> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
>>
>> home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx1 root
>> root 31 Sep 2
Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 31 Sep 21 10:12
/usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx
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
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
t on a piece of string, but if you cut the
weight off the loose end of string is dangling. A light fitting hangs
from the ceiling, but if you rip it down the loose ends of wires
dangle. A fresh corpse hangs from a gibbet, but as it goes manky and
bits fall off the word 'dangling' would st
nging off into nowhere. A dangling symlink is a symlink with
no target, and is thus useless.
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Hi all,
English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means?
I get the following errors emailed via cron every day:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/ipfwadm.8.gz is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/fax500.8.gz is
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: warni
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/man3/Judy1.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3
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
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
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
IL 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
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
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 sy
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 itse
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
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
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
ben
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