"Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> [2003:10:08:16:41:21+0000] scribed: > Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following: > > home:~# ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 21 10:12 /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz > home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex8.1.1.gz > home:~# ls /usr/share/man/man1/tix* > /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz@ /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish8.1.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish.1.gz@ > > My question: what exactly is tixindex an alternative *for*? Am I safe > just blowing away both those symlinks? First of all, a dangling symlink is at best useless, and at worst dangerous. As it is, it contributes _nothing_ of value to your system; so, deleting it adds value. Second, if you really need it, you need to find out from which package it comes: dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz Either reinstall that package, or contact its maintainer to correct the erroneous link. It seems endemic that many package changes are ignorant of that dark corner of dpkg package that is /usr/sbin/update-alternatives -- why is that? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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