Re: dangling symlink

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:08 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:00:08 -0800
>
> ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> > how does one go about repairing a dangling symlink?
> >
> > e.g.:
> > # man kdm
> > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> > No manual entry for kdm
>
> maybe someone deleted the file /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz (or
> if /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz is/was a symlink, the file that
> was pointed to by).
>
> What happens if you do:
>   $  ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz

# ls -aFl /usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           25 Jan 28 17:01 
/usr/share/man/man1/kdm.1.gz -> ../man7/undocumented.7.gz

the 2nd and 3rd lines above are on one line in the console.

is the assumption correct that this means the man pages i was searching for 
failed to install?

ben