[root at localhost.localdomain: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on loki]

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:10:45AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Bas van Gils wrote:
> > Every now and then I get these mails on my work machine (running breezy).
> > Does anyone know how to get rid of these annoying messages?
> ... 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain> -----
> > 
> > From: Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain>
> ...
> > /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink
> > 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> mandb runs out of /etc/cron.daily/man-db to update the man database.  You
> don't really want to remove it (though, for a personal-use machine it
> probably doesn't need to run that often).  You can simply delete the
> dangling symlink (left behind when a package was changed - odds are it'll
> automatically get fixed at some future date, but there's no need to wait).

It would be nice to know where this particular dangling symlink comes
from. I know that it was provided by some Java virtual machine package,
but there are several different packages that provide the rmic
alternative and I have no straightforward way of finding out which one
is buggy. Bas, do you have any information on which JVMs you've had
installed on your system, now or in the past?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]