several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> Now try running an editor like KWrite, vi, Joe, or mcedit on one of
>> the files. Changes you make in one will show up in the other. (There
>> are more editors you could use, I just listed a few...)
>> 
>> You may want run ls -l on one of the ifcfg-eth0 files, and see if
>> there are still 3 links. If not, it may break some utilities.
>
> There are 3 yet.
> [root at diablo ~]# ls -l `locate ifcfg-wlan0`
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wlan0
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-wlan0
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 303 May 22 21:34 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>
> And I STILL fail to see the point of all this, rather like we have a 
> committee working on that one script and its support. :-)

Well, the point is to provide network profiles so that mobile users can 
change profiles when they change locations and not have to reconfigure 
their network settings every time.  So you could have one profile for work 
and one for home, and you could swap just by selecting the profile from 
system-config-network.  Then the hard link in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts gets changed to point to the one in the 
appropriate /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/ directory.

In fact, for most mobile applications, NetworkManager is the better tool 
anyway.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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