Bob Proulx wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>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 > > It would be a lot easier to use the -L option and do it in one command. > > ls -lL /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1369 2005-03-10 14:55 > /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
Thanks, that's a useful option to ls! I learn something every day :-) > In spite of your evidence to the contrary I believe that the link in > question must really be dangling. I just can't believe otherwise > because of the series of symlinks. I feel certain there was a mistake > in there somewhere. Unfortunately I get the exact same thing you did: benjo[3]:~% ls -lL /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1369 2005-03-10 16:55 /usr/share/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz (I take it you're using gnome-terminal too.) So I'm still not convinced of man-db's sanity. Although I didn't get such an error message in my email this morning, so maybe the situation has resolved itself somehow (maybe I installed another package that caused man-db to rebuild its database???) I hate when computers act non-deterministic. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
