On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? Anacron sometimes helpfully informs me of similar issues. I suppose it should be simple enough to hack together a trivial shell / perl / python script to loop through the directory, find all dangling symlinks, and delete them; if no one posts some code, I'll try it myself eventually. OTOH, this isn't the "Debian way", and I don't know if there's any potential for upgrade problems or some other interference with the package management system. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
