Bug#226279: manual cleanlinks program
Package: xutils
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 03:13:45PM +0100, Dyon Beaart wrote:
> At first I want to appoligise for taking you're time and for my bad
> english ;)
>
> I am sort of new to linux and so, and in my vacation I was testing some
> unknown linux programs for myself...
> After a while i found a program called 'cleanlinks'... sounded pretty
> interesting to me...
>
> After reading the manual I found out the program had no warnings or
> whatsoever. Cleaning useless links... Nice!
>
> I became root and runned the program in the root of my filesystem... Bad
> Idea :-)
>
> After a couple of messages of removing system things I found out this
> wasn't completely what I wanted. Bye Bye systemfiles...
>
> I am not blaiming you or whatever, offcourse It's my own fault, But
> maybe it is a good idea to say in the manual that you shouldn't run the
> program in system directories etc.
>
> I hope that the manual can be edited so no one as stupid as me runs the
> program in the / again...
I don't actually maintain the relevant piece of software; I just wrote a
manual page so that it had one at all. However, I agree that such a
warning should exist so that people don't unwittingly remove the
/lib/libc.so.6 symlink.
Branden?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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