[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Al Girling]

Hi everyone,

I have many files which are shown with white lettering on a red background, 
when usin 'ls -al' at the command line .  Sometimes the lettering is also 
flashing.  It has been suggested that a red background is displayed because 
of a broken symlink.  I'm not sure what this is or how I can fix it.

Anyone know?

This is the file most frequently to be found with such a background.  It's in 
my home directory.

'.DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain -> /home/al/ 
.DCOPsever_localhost.localdomain_:0'

Regards,

Al