fdupes follows symlink even when command line parameter *_not_* given

[Bruce Miller]

Binary package hint: fdupes

I ran fdupes from my home directory with the command: fdupes -dr *

According to the manpage and the --help summary, the application should not have followed symlinks, However, it did and asked me to resolve over 600 duplications in /usr/share/doc, to which I had symlinked with a ~/doc entry.

bruce@Xenophon:~$ ls -l
total 52
drwxr-x--- 8 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-07 22:10 bin/
drwxr-x--- 3 bruce bruce 12288 2010-04-07 22:08 configs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-06 17:00 Desktop/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bruce bruce 14 2010-04-06 14:16 doc -> /usr/share/doc/
drwxr-x--- 37 bruce bruce 12288 2010-04-07 22:21 Documents/
drwxr-xr-x 2 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-07 18:18 downloads/
drwxr-xr-x 2 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-06 14:39 mergeddocs/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bruce bruce 18 2010-04-06 14:15 music -> /media/stor/music//
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bruce bruce 15 2010-04-06 14:15 pendrive -> /media/KINGSTON/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bruce bruce 19 2010-04-06 14:15 pendriveblue -> /media/KINGSTON-new/
drwxr-x--- 2 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-07 22:07 scratch/
drwxr-xr-x 3 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-06 20:12 SoftMaker/
drwxr-xr-x 2 bruce bruce 4096 2010-04-06 16:55 Templates/
bruce@Xenophon:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fdupes 1.50-PR2-2build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 7 22:26:20 2010
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fdupes

[dino99 (9d9)]

There is no support on such deprecated version; that one has died long time ago.