Anacron

Nick Demou (enLogic) ndemou at enlogic.gr
Thu Mar 2 16:27:51 UTC 2006


Patrick Siglin wrote:

>Does anyone know what this mean? is it like a missing path?
>
>/etc/cron.daily/man-db: 
>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink 
>mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vncconfig.1.gz is a dangling symlink 
>
>--
>poison at list.memphistw.org
>
>
>  
>
from the fist hit I got from google using the query  "what is a tabling 
symlink"

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means?
> I get the following errors emailed via cron every day:

Just hanging off into nowhere.  A dangling symlink is a symlink with
no target, and is thus useless.



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