[Wolves] Bash/Terminal

[TriG]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:56, Peter Cannon wrote:
> Morning ALL
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this means and do I need to do anything about
> it?
> 
> I was mooching around my system in a shell using the CD command as my
> SOPHOS anti-virus said it could not open an item.
> 
> I did cd to the directory and did ls -l and there was a file which is
> highlighted in a red flashing block

Red flashing is a symlink that cannot find the file it is linking too

> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    29 Jan 28 14:07 common ->
> /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/common
> 
> The line below is the bit that is flashing at me:
> common -> /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/common
> 
> I take it that it is some kind of warning but what?
If you cd into /usr/share/doc/HTML/de you wont see common thats what is trying to link too
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Cannon
> 
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Wolves LUG mailing list
> Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/
> Mailing list: Wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Mailing list home: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves