Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > Vreme: 10/08/2011 01:10 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg piše: >> James B. Byrne wrote: >>> >>> $ 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. > > Files in /sysconfig/networking/profiles/ are not hardlinks. As the last > name suggests, those are files from Profiles. And using "ll" command is > blinding you. If you use "ls -lR /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/* : yes they are hard links, or at least thay can be. "info ls" will tell you that the column between permissions and owner is the number of hard links. That's the 2 in the OP's "ls -l" output that I highlighted in my previous email. Your own example below shows that most of your files in networking/profiles/default are hardlinked 2 other times (3 hard links total), most probably in networking/devices/ as well as network-scripts/ . To confirm this try "ls -li" and compare the inode numbers. > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default: > total 44 > -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 271 Sep 3 22:00 hosts > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 315 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 248 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:1 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 248 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:2 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 248 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:3 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 248 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:4 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 248 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:5 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 211 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:6 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 211 Jun 30 13:39 ifcfg-br0:7 > -rw-r--r--. 3 root root 229 Sep 4 01:06 ifcfg-eth0 > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 286 Sep 4 00:56 resolv.conf > > Both C5 and C6 have "network" service able to create and switch to > multiple profiles. For example, switching to profile "WiFiKuca" is done > with: > > "system-config-network-cmd -p WiFiKuca -a" this is not the "network service", as in what you get with "service network stop|start|etc...." which runs /etc/init.d/network in a predictable environment. That script knows nothing about profiles, and doesn't care at all about /etc/sysconfig/networking/ . your example uses system-config-network-cmd which is part of system-config-network, which as I said uses the stuff in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ .