Re: dangling symlink
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:40:34 -0800
ben <benfoley@rcn.com> wrote:
> 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?
Does /usr/share/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz exist? Sounds like a
strange name...
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