system-config-network profiles and hard links

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Neal Becker wrote:

> I don't understand why system-config-network is creating new profiles using
> hard links. AFAICT, this is totally broken on my FC3 system.  Every time I
> try to change an existing wireless profile, it seems to change them all. 
> Guess why?  They are all hard linked together.
> 
> For example:
> ls -l /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/home/
> total 20
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 131 Feb 25 12:43 hosts
> -rw-r--r--  6 root root 349 Feb 25 12:43 ifcfg-eth1
> -rw-------  6 root root  15 Feb 25 12:43 keys-eth1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   0 Feb 25 12:43 network
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  92 Feb 25 12:43 resolv.conf
> -rw-r--r--  6 root root 120 Feb 25 12:43 route-eth1
> 
> Something is really wrong here.

For one - this looks like a topic for fedora-list.

And I think the current behavior is correct - because I (as a user)
might want some devices with the SAME settings in all profiles.

And to have different settings - you can make a 'copy' of the device
[lets say eth0]- change settings in the copy. Now one profile will
have - eth0 active - and the other will have eth0Copy0 active. [the
nick-names can be changed from eth0/eth0Copy0 to more appropriate
names]

Satish