Re: man pages: dangling symlinks

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved?
>
> Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point
> somewhere that exists.
>
> Cheers,

hi colin,

thanks for the response. i guess the question should probably be, how do 
dangling symlinks come to occur in the first place?

for example: 

me@mybox:$  man gconftool
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gconftool.1.gz is a dangling symlink
No manual entry for gconftool

should I construe from this that there never was a man page for gconftool, or 
is it the case that it simply failed to install? in the event that there is a 
man page for each of the many various apps that return this message on man 
requests, what's the best way to fix this?

am i making sense here?

ben