symlink

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 17:02 +0100, baza wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what this means and how to fix it?
> 
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:08:15 +0100 (BST)
> From: Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain>
> To: root at localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on barbelith
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oofromtemplate2.1.gz is a dangling
> symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ooffice2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oohtml2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ooweb2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oowriter2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oocalc2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ooimpress2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oodraw2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/oomath2.1.gz is a dangling symlink
It means that file A is a symlink to file B which is (more or less) a
symlink pointing back to A!  (The message above as delivered to you by
"cron" (or anacron), which is a daemon running in the background running
specific tasks at a predefined date/time, usually system maintenance
tasks.  In the above message, for example, cron is running the script
"/etc/cron.daily/man-db" which is to create the mandb (man database) so
that searching the manuals by using "man -k keyword" become possible and
fast.)

This is a bug in OpenOffice2 package(s).  I don't know if it's fixed or
not (the last time I installed OpenOffice2 was about 2 months ago, but
I'm assuming that you're up-do-date).  Maybe someone should submit a
bug-report.

Ziyad.