Anacron

[Patrick Siglin]

I used the symlinks tool and fixed the problem. Thanks for all the responses.

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From: Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com>
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:57:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Anacron

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:44, 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
> >
> > A symlink is a shortcut to another file. On your machine rmic.1.gz 
> > points to another filename and that file doesn't exist. Either the 
> > package that installed the symlinks is broken, or you uninstalled 2 
> > packages which didn't properly clean up their links.
> > 
> > To fix it, run 'ls -al /usr/share/man/man1/' and see where the links 
> > point to, then run locate on those file names to see where the 
> > originals really are. Then delete or amend the links as appropriate
> >
> 
> "symlinks" is also a handy tool for finding/fixing such beasties all
> over your disks. You'll find it in the universe repositories.
> 
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