Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
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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
Ok, I'll take your word for the edit 1 edit all, but why did I have to
edit all 3 copies before a change in the MAC address was effected?
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Cheers, Gene
