Gene Heskett wrote: <-------------[ SNIP ]---------------> > If the name of the device has been changed from wlan0 to wifi0, why was > there not a notice of that change ON THIS LIST? And what would I need > to change besides the name and contents of ifcfg-wlan0 file, made triply > difficult by that file existing in 3 seperate locations via hard links. > It took me about a week to discover this and figure out a way to > actually make a change in the MAC address to take globally. What I > think of that isn't printable... But it would be nice if one knew which > file of the 3 was the actual master copy so we don't waste hours, even > days redoing such an edit & then looking at the log to see the old MAC > address still being used. > There is only one file. There are just 3 file names pointing to it. Even though the file is in 3 different directories, there is no master file. They all access the same location on the hard drive, so changing one has the effect of changing 3 files. But deleting one file name does not delete the file. It is there until all the file names pointing to it are deleted. You can see how many file names are linked to a file by running "ls -l <file name>". [mikkel@toshiba devices]$ ls -l ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 128 May 15 17:35 ifcfg-eth0 The 3 in this case means that there are 3 file names pointing to the same file. If you want to know how to create files like this, look at the ln command. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
