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

Bas van Gils basvg at cs.ru.nl
Tue Feb 21 20:45:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:22:13PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > ----- 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).

Hi,

I've been looking for that dangling symblink but couldn't find it so I'm not
exactly sure what to remove.

 
> 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?

Well, I have this problem on 2 of my machines. One of these has j2re1.4
installed, the other doesn't have a JVM installed yet.

Cheers,

  Bas


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