On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:13:54AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > After doing a mandb, I received warnings: > > /usr/share/man/man1/rcp.1.gz is a dangling symlink > /usr/share/man/man1/rlogin.1.gz is a dangling symlink > /usr/share/man/man1/rsh.1.gz is a dangling symlink > > > ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/ yields > > (...) rcp.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/rcp.1.gz et al > > ls -l /etc/alternatives/ yields > > (...) rcp.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/rcp.1.gz et al > > The executables are all linked to /usr/bin/ssh > > > This looks like a dog chasing its tail. Are there any repercussions > should I delete these links. Out of curiosity, how does this happen? man update-alternatives update-alternatives sets which programs will provide rcp, rlogin, etc. It also resets man page to match. To reset these: (as root) /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --config rcp /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --config rlogin /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --config rsh -- Jerome
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