Hello all. This is my third week to debian and 6th month to Linux, but I'm having a little problem. When I run man <some file> I periodically see warnings smiliar to these.
>man: can't open /usr/man/man8/upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8: No such file or di rectory > man: warning: /usr/man/man8/upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request About 50 or so of these warnings flash by each with a different symlink. I know what you're going to say. The file (above) upgrade-windowmaker-defaults.8.gz is obviously a dangling symlink and should be removed. I did this just a fw days ago. In fact I removed every bad symlink in each man directory, yet now they are back. It is as if man-db is doing this to me. can anyone explain what exactly man-db does. Obviously it compacts my man files. DOes it keep the originals anywhere? Anyone else have this problem?