-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've seen this as well, and have simply removed the dangling symlinks with no ill effects. Greg On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:16:22AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > After some pretty heavy duty upgrades on Debian Sid in recent weeks, I > find that I now have some dangling symlinks associated with some missing > man pages. They are reported by the mandb command which is run as part > of my daily cron jobs. > > I ran mandb -c manually hoping that rebuilding the database of man pages > would eliminate the problem, but it did not. > > Is there any reason not to simply remove them? Is there a command that > will do that automatically? Nobody wants their symlinks to dangle. > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (15% of Full) > Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFETLOGXnuiIOyDVQURAqPdAKCm4y+LKhiSgKgOn/PMMoZEaO85XQCeIvpl > YuV8YjMWWwygpVNcyQbx/ak= > =mhYw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFETTSf7s9z/XlyUyARAiYbAJ9BwfxbovRLkOVS5Qb73JqLm27MZACdFWLB o3zTSv+TYxm64IQ77J3gbxQ= =SF7N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----