Problem with MAN files

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:02:25 +0530
Ashwani Jain <ashwani at gisil.com> wrote:

> HI
> 
> Today morning while checking my system mails I found a mail which I
> could not understand, details of mails are as follows:
> 
> X-Original-To: root
> From: Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain>
> To: root at localhost.localdomain
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on lhotse
> Date: Tue,  8 Nov 2005 07:36:58 +0530 (IST)
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:

 <snipped>

> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/4ssd.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> 
> What to do now after reading this mail ?  Please suggest, I could not
> even understand even what this mail want to say ?
> 
Relax - it is just telling you those links don't point to the right place in the man pages (probably the pages don't exist). 
Anyway it isn't life threatening ;-) I see similar messages from time to time. Chances are you can delete the symlinks if the messages bother you - maybe check to see if any of those manuals are important to you. Could be a packaging bug I guess...

For instance I get a message like thiose you saw (in my case for "rmic") and I type the name of the man page and see

peter at prospero:~ $ man rmic
man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink
No manual entry for rmic


Peter


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