Re: man dangling symlink question

[JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

"Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes:

> Cron keeps yapping at me, so I investigate and find the following:
> 
> home:~# ls -l  /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           31 Sep 21 10:12 /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
> home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           36 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex8.1.1.gz
> home:~# ls /usr/share/man/man1/tix*
> /usr/share/man/man1/tixindex.1.gz@  /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish8.1.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/tixwish.1.gz@
> 
> 
> My question: what exactly is tixindex an alternative *for*?  Am I safe
> just blowing away both those symlinks?
> 
> This may or may not be relevant:
> 
> home:~# ls -l /etc/alternatives/tixindex
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Sep 26 19:56 /etc/alternatives/tixindex -> /usr/bin/tixindex8.1
> 

$ update-alternatives --display tixindex

should give you a good start. 

Hope this helps,

Jaume

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