James B. Byrne wrote:
$ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles/* total 24 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 158 Oct 7 15:19 hosts -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 116 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-br0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 238 Oct 7 15:24 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 117 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-eth1 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 40 Oct 7 15:19 network -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 120 Oct 7 15:25 resolv.conf
$ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices total 12 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 116 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-br0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 238 Oct 7 15:24 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 117 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-eth1
^ look at that 2 there
My questions are: What are these duplicate, and identical, files doing in multiple places on my system;
those are hard-linked, most likely the same file in both subdirs (not identical files, a single file hard-linked twice)
the /etc/sysconfig/networking/* subdirs can exist on C5 as well, I think they're used by system-config-network
and why are they evidently interfering with the normal processing of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts through the service utility?
on a C6 machine I have those dirs are empty, as on your C5 system. I probably never used system-config-network on it. Networking through /etc/init.d/network functions fine without them.