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/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > No manual entry for kdm > > maybe someone deleted the file /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz (or > if /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is/was a symlink, the file that > was pointed to by). > > What happens if you do: > $ ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz
# ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 28 17:01 /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz -> ../man7/undocumented.7.gz the 2nd and 3rd lines above are on one line in the console. is the assumption correct that this means the man pages i was searching for failed to install? ben
