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How to delete links properly?


From: Rune Mossige
Subject: How to delete links properly?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:28:26 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i

I am using 2.0.b1, and I'd like to delete some obsolete symlinks from /
on a number of hosts. What is the recommended way to do this? Is it
advisable to have e.g.:

files:
  any::
    / recurse=0 action=fixall links=tidy

Will this delete all symlinks in / that do not point to any existing
file or directory?

If the above is correct, then what about the following scenario:
We have automounter maps called e.g. /prod/xxx and for historical
reasons we also have a symlink from root as
/xxx -> /prod/xxx

If the automounter is running, then /prod/xxx exists, and the symlink
/xxx is not deleted. However, if the automounter is not running, then
/prod/xxx does not exist, and the symlink /xxx will be deleted....is
this a correct interpretation?

If I want to explicitely specify what symlinks to delete, how should I
do that?

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