[SLUG] Broken symlinks

[Gavin Baker]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 19:00, Al Girling 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.

Yeah, its just the filetype=colour. dir_colors(5) has the details.

> > 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!

The mountain isn't high. Just very wide. Getting to the top isn't
difficult, but walking around it would take a few lifetimes. I guess the
view from the top would be nice though, with pretty trees and things. 
The air might be hard to breath though, and avalanches are a bit
dangerous. As are mountain lions, grizzly bears, the cold, frost
bite...Erm, Ok, lets stop the analogy :)
 
> As for the Rutebook.  It's downloading as I type!

Tell us how you go!

Regards,
Gav