[Solved] Safely delete multiple instances of 'index.html' in /home?

[teddyred]

There are 21 folders labeled 'index.html' in /home in ZenMini.  Can they safely be deleted without interfering with access to the repo?
Thanks.

[melodie]

There are 21 folders labeled 'index.html' in /home in ZenMini.  Can they safely be deleted without interfering with access to the repo?
Thanks.

This should normally not be possible. Have you used your install by login to X as root:
* all the time
* sometimes
* most of the time

??

What do theses folders contain ?

[teddyred]

This should normally not be possible. Have you used your install by login to X as root:
* all the time
* sometimes
* most of the time

??

What do theses folders contain ?

Hi, melodie.
Sorry I don't understand the question.
The contents of the first two are:


[contents of index/html]
Index of /

Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description[DIR] debian/                 02-Jan-2011 15:38    -  
[DIR] pub/                    21-Feb-2009 21:03    -  

Apache Server at distro.ibiblio.org Port 80
************************************************************************
[contents of index/html1]
Index of /

Icon  Name                    Last modified      Size  Description[DIR] DesktopBSD/             18-Jul-2006 18:04    -  
[DIR] FreeBSD/                25-Jan-2011 00:48    -  
[DIR] OpenBSD/                25-Jan-2011 20:22    -  
[DIR] apache/                 25-Jan-2011 21:19    -  
[DIR] array2/                 26-Jun-2008 11:26    -  
[DIR] bflex/                  08-Sep-2010 20:26    -  
[DIR] blastwave/              13-May-2009 12:10    -  
[DIR] csw/                    13-May-2009 12:10    -  
[DIR] cygwin/                 25-Jan-2011 11:23    -  
[DIR] eclipse/                20-Jan-2011 10:14    -  
[DIR] gnu/                    07-Jan-2011 12:56    -  
[DIR] iuep/                   21-Jan-2004 11:09    -  
[DIR] kde/                    04-Apr-2004 14:48    -  
[DIR] linux/                  30-Nov-2010 11:35    -  
[DIR] mozilla-releases/       10-Nov-2010 19:07    -  
[DIR] mozilla-video/          05-May-2005 13:16    -  
[DIR] mozilla.org/            10-Nov-2010 19:07    -  
[DIR] netbeans/               09-Nov-2009 08:31    -  
[DIR] openmrs/                05-Aug-2010 13:43    -  
[DIR] openoffice/             26-Jan-2011 00:01    -  
[DIR] opera/                  23-Nov-2010 15:10    -  
[DIR] oscar/                  13-Nov-2006 13:31    -  
[DIR] perl/                   26-Dec-2003 15:06    -  
[DIR] samba/                  23-Jan-2011 14:48    -  
[DIR] security/               30-Dec-2003 16:24    -  
[DIR] solaris/                29-Dec-2008 13:38    -  
[DIR] tdf/                    26-Sep-2010 13:11    -  
[DIR] usail/                  26-Dec-2003 15:06    -  
[DIR] xlivecd/                26-Oct-2005 15:20    -  

[melodie]

Hi,

My question is very simple : what have you done to get this ?

[teddyred]

Sorry, melodie.
These folders began appearing in /home during and after the period we were changing apt sources to find a working repository.
As I have mentioned, there are 21 of these and opening them opens a firefox browser window to various web sites such as heanet, ibiblio etc.  I'm just concerned that deleting them will cause a problem with access to the repos, since they appear to be 'sources' links.

[melodie]

Hi,

Very strange. Just open a console in /home become root start mc and select them all with the "Inser" button placed on each line one after the other, you can change line with the up or down arrow from the keyboard, and then to delete them you just have to press F8 and confirm.

[teddyred]

melodie, I just bit the bullet and deleted them all.  Rebooted and opened synaptic.  And it loaded just fine.  So apparently these folders can be removed without impacting synaptic.  Whew!

[melodie]

teddyred, I'm happy that you could solve this strange issue. You would just have to add "(Solved)" in the title of your first post now, if you don't mind.