On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Ok, here goes. I'm sure there are cleaner ways to do this ... find /etc/alternatives/ -maxdepth 1 | perl -n -e 'chomp; print $_ , "\n" if !(-e)' Do this first to make sure it's correct (it seems to be correct on my system); if we mess up we can seriously hose our systems. IFF you get a correct list of dangling symlinks, then do find /etc/alternatives/ -maxdepth 1 | perl -n -e 'chomp; print $_ , "\n" if !(-e)' | xargs /bin/rm You might want a second opinion before trying this; messing around with homebrewed scripts (especially mine0 as root in /etc is living dangerously ... > Celejar HTH, 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]
