[PLUG] Ubuntu 10.04 and lots of missing links question

logical american website.reader3 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 22:51:15 UTC 2011


Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my system?  I am running a 
64 bit version of Ubuntu 10.04 lucid edition of linux.  While using the 
recursive grep command on the /usr folder, I noticed a lot of "No such 
file or directory" messages.

Investigating further, I found over 10,530 such messages when searching 
the whole /usr folder and all of these pertained to symbolic links that 
pointed to missing files (most generally)

I also saw this on the latest 11.10 oneiric edition of Ubuntu also, in 
the /usr area.

Does anyone actually check out their symbolic links?  Or do we just 
assume that if we make a symbolic link, it is good to go?

Of course, I am afraid to touch anything, but still 10,540+ messages 
seems a lot?

Your thoughts?

- Randall




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