dangling symlinks

[Gregory Nowak]

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I've seen this as well, and have simply removed the dangling symlinks
with no ill effects.

Greg


On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:16:22AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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> After some pretty heavy duty upgrades on Debian Sid in recent weeks, I 
> find that I now have some dangling symlinks associated with some missing 
> man pages. They are reported by the mandb command which is run as part 
> of my daily cron jobs. 
> 
> I ran mandb -c manually hoping that rebuilding the database of man pages 
> would eliminate the problem, but it did not.
> 
> Is there any reason not to simply remove them? Is there a command that 
> will do that automatically? Nobody wants their symlinks to dangle.
> 
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