dangling symlinks

Wenzhuo Zhang wenzhuo at zhmail.com
Thu Dec 22 01:14:22 UTC 2005


Hi,

After installing postfix, I started to receive the following message 
generated by cron.daily:

   /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
   mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink

/usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a symlink to 
/etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz. A further look into /etc/alternatives 
reveal the following three dangling three symlinks altogether:

   $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz /etc/alternatives/rmic 
/etc/alternatives/netscape-javaplugin.so
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 53 2005-10-27 11:42 
/etc/alternatives/netscape-javaplugin.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns4/libjavaplugin.so
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 30 2005-10-17 18:11 /etc/alternatives/rmic -> 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/rmic
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 40 2005-10-17 18:11 
/etc/alternatives/rmic.1.gz -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/man/man1/rmic.1.gz

Apparantly, netscape-javaplugin.so was created by sun-j2re1.5, because 
it was created at exactly the same time as mozilla-javaplugin.so, which 
belongs to the sun-j2re1.5.

Which package created rmic and rmic.1.gz?

Wenzhuo





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