Agreed. If --list is going to exclude broken symbolic links then it should also exclude symbolic links to directories.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l w total 4 lrwxr-xr-x 1 jdthood jdthood 15 2005-02-13 12:05 bar -> /does/not/exist lrwxr-xr-x 1 jdthood jdthood 1 2005-02-13 12:03 foo -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 jdthood jdthood 24 2005-02-13 12:03 s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ run-parts --list w w/foo w/s Note that --test also lists symbolic links to directories. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ run-parts --test w run-parts: component w/bar is a broken symbolic link w/foo Another problem is that run-parts's error output is on stdout. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ run-parts --test w 2>/dev/null run-parts: component w/bar is a broken symbolic link w/foo These tests were performed with debianutils 2.8.4. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
