On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a strange name... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | 484,246 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 ! ! persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'. | ! That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. ! ! Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. | +------------------------------------------------------------+
