[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Al Girling]

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 6:00 pm, you wrote:
> Like Wil says (It is "Wil" right?;), the colours could mean anything.
> They are taken from your $LS_COLORS environment variable (echo
> $LS_COLORS), which might or might not be read from a file in /etc by
> your ~/.bashrc (on sane distros). See dir_colors(5) for more.

no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:
or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;
32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.arc=01;31:
*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;
31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.
jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:

This is the print out of 'echo $LS_COLORS.  I hope it means more to you than 
me!  I can only presume the numbers represent colours in some way.

> I hope we havent confused you even more by going into irrelevant things.
> If we have, i would highly recommend the "rutebook" for a great
> introduction to all things Linux. It's available free on the net or in
> print form. Mail me if you can't find it and i will send you a copy.

Trust me, you can't possibly confuse me any further.  ;)  I feel I'm on a 
learning curve that requires rope, pitons and crampons for me to make 
progress.  Don't worry though.  If I may continue the analogy, the handholds 
are starting to become a little more obvious at least!

As for the Rutebook.  It's downloading as I type!

Cheers

Al

Asking all those dumb newbie questions you've been too afraid to ask!