several discrepancies with new -2139 kernel.

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Jun 27 03:38:25 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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 at 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?

-- 
Cheers, Gene




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