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Bug#226279: marked as done (manual cleanlinks program)

Your message dated Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:13:15 +0100
with message-id <45D85EFB.5050902@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#226279: manual cleanlinks program
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Package: xutils
Version: 4.2.1-12.1

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:13:45PM +0100, Dyon Beaart wrote:
> At first I want to appoligise for taking you're time and for my bad
> english ;)
> 
> I am sort of new to linux and so, and in my vacation I was testing some
> unknown linux programs for myself...
> After a while i found a program called 'cleanlinks'... sounded pretty
> interesting to me...
> 
> After reading the manual I found out the program had no warnings or
> whatsoever. Cleaning useless links... Nice!
> 
> I became root and runned the program in the root of my filesystem... Bad
> Idea :-)
> 
> After a couple of messages of removing system things I found out this
> wasn't completely what I wanted. Bye Bye systemfiles...
> 
> I am not blaiming you or whatever, offcourse It's my own fault, But
> maybe it is a good idea to say in the manual that you shouldn't run the
> program in system directories etc.
> 
> I hope that the manual can be edited so no one as stupid as me runs the
> program in the / again...

I don't actually maintain the relevant piece of software; I just wrote a
manual page so that it had one at all. However, I agree that such a
warning should exist so that people don't unwittingly remove the
/lib/libc.so.6 symlink.

Branden?

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

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Closing since there is no way to reach the actual submitter and it is
very unlikely that cleanlinks will remove non-dangling symlinks (the
code is short enough to be checked).

If anybody ever reproduces, feel free to reopen, but I seriously doubt
it will ever happen.

Brice

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