Dave Gavin wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 195 Feb 13 21:03 > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 195 Feb 13 21:03 > /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 > -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 195 Feb 13 21:03 > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0 > > (my mailer will have broken the output lines, sorry) > > The "3" in the second column is the count of links to the data - the > different > files are hard links to the same data. Edit one and you edit them all... > Your comment about this being a bit of a mess is right on target... I > think that it's the result of different tools looking in different places > or the design of the profile mechanism (which is also a mess and seems > only partially implemented). In my case the relevant files are not the same [tim@martha ~]$ ls -ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 Mar 30 19:24 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 [tim@martha ~]$ ls -ls /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 4 -rw-r--r-- 4 root root 115 Mar 30 16:44 /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 Admittedly that may be my fault, or rather the fault of an ancient version of NetworkManager. However, my point was that the file actually looked at is (I believe) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 . I'm not really clear why there should be 3 or 4 linked files. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
