q re network stuffs & FC5
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu May 11 02:45:21 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Wandering around in the /etc/sysconfig tree, I find that there seem to
> be a minimum of 3 each of all the ifcfg-xxxx scripts scattered around.
> And while I don't seem to be able to see any links, if I update one of
> them, the other 2 will appear to have been updated at the same time.
>
> No damned wonder I can edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts version
> of ifcfg-wlan0, restart that interface and then see that iwconfig nor
> ifconfig appear to reflect the changes I've made.
>
> So which is the master version of these files, and how many of the
> friggin dupes can I actually nuke to get rid of the effect of trying to
> make a change and having that change ignored?
>
> Right now there are:
> root at diablo sysconfig]# ls -lL `locate ifcfg-wlan0`
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 314 May 10 21:21
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wlan0
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 314 May 10 21:21
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-wlan0
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 314 May 10 21:21
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>
> Can anyone explain just what the heck is going on here? This is driving
> me to drink, which I don't mind all that much within limits (2 beers,
> I'm diabetic), but its making me buy the gas too!
>
2 words "Hard Link".
Do an "ls -i" on the files and you will see they all have the same inode.
Ed
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