Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:39:55AM -0700, ben wrote: > thanks for the hints. i'll set about those methods and see how it > goes. i've been googling on the subject and it seems like this issue > goes back a few years. i saw one post from 6/98. is this going to be > sorted any time in the near futur

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread ben
On Friday 04 October 2002 01:52 am, Colin Watson wrote: [snip] > > Does 'update-alternatives --config gconftool' sort it out? Make sure to > keep a record of the current state of the /etc/alternatives/gconftool* > symlinks and the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gconftool before > doing tha

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remo

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? > > Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point > somewhere that exists. > > Cheer

Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point somewhere that exists. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTE

man pages: dangling symlinks

2002-10-03 Thread ben
is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]