man-db mentions a number of bad Symlinks
Hello all. This is my third week to debian and 6th month to Linux, but I'm
having a little problem. When I run man <some file> I periodically see
warnings smiliar to these.
>man: can't open /usr/man/man8/upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8: No such file
or di rectory
> man: warning: /usr/man/man8/upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8.gz: bad symlink
or ROFF `.so' request
About 50 or so of these warnings flash by each with a different symlink. I
know what you're going to say. The file (above)
upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8.gz is obviously a dangling symlink and should
be removed. I did this just a fw days ago. In fact I removed every bad
symlink in each man directory, yet now they are back. It is as if man-db is
doing this to me. can anyone explain what exactly man-db does. Obviously
it compacts my man files. DOes it keep the originals anywhere? Anyone else
have this problem?
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