On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:44:15 -0400 "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi list, > > Once a day I get the following email message from the man-db cron job: > > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz is a dangling > > symlink > > This in spite of all the evidence: > > > benjo[1]:~% ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2005-09-09 10:05 > > /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -> > > /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz You might need to follow the links. This happens occasionally over here, and I wondered about it as well. Try looking in /etc/ alternatives, you may find that the file x-terminal-emulator.1.gz points nowhere, or is nonexistant. Or, it points back to a manpage in / usr/share/man/man1 that does not exist. Here, I have a message that refers to the manpage for ftpd(8) being a dangling symlink (/usr/share/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz) $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l ftpd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 3 2004 ftpd.8.gz -> /etc/alternatives/ ftpd.8.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l ftpd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 3 2004 ftpd -> /usr/sbin/wu-ftpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 3 2004 ftpd.8.gz -> /usr/share/man/ man8/wu-ftpd.8.gz OK, so far so good - let's see what is in /etc/alternatives now: $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l ftpd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 3 2004 ftpd -> /usr/sbin/wu-ftpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Oct 3 2004 ftpd.8.gz -> /usr/share/man/ man8/wu-ftpd.8.gz Now, we need to check where ftpd.8.gz points to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l wu* ls: wu*: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bingo. There's the dangling symlink. In my case, I'm not going to be veryworried about this as I don't really have a need for an ftp server (and there are better ones than wu-ftpd AFAIK). But I did find one relating to vi - jsut had to correct the /etc/alternatives/vi.1.gz to point to the right flavor of vi on my system (vim). > Please CC replies to me as I'm not subscribed. OK, done. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]