Anacron

[Kevin Cole]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:44, Patrick Siglin wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know what this mean? is it like a missing path?
>>
>>/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
>>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vncconfig.1.gz is a dangling
>>symlink
>
> A symlink is a shortcut to another file. On your machine rmic.1.gz 
> points to another filename and that file doesn't exist. Either the 
> package that installed the symlinks is broken, or you uninstalled 2 
> packages which didn't properly clean up their links.
> 
> To fix it, run 'ls -al /usr/share/man/man1/' and see where the links 
> point to, then run locate on those file names to see where the 
> originals really are. Then delete or amend the links as appropriate
> 

"symlinks" is also a handy tool for finding/fixing such beasties all
over your disks. You'll find it in the universe repositories.

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