On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:39:08PM -0800, Remco Treffkorn wrote: > Why do we need the files in tree places, even if it's just links? > Is there documentation I should read to understand what is going on? > How are networking/profiles used? > Any pointers, please... The existence of a file/hardlink in a directory makes it a member of that profile. It is intended that there be e.g. multiple ifcfg-eth0Profile files, one for each Profile, even if they configure the same hardware device. When you activate a specific profile, all the network devices that are not a member of that profile are deactivated, and all the ones that are a member of that profile are activated. Hardlinking allows the same "virtual device configuration" to be shared with multiple profiles. It took me a while of playing with system-config-network and looking at the generated file tree to figure out the paradigm. I must say it is strange and non-intuitive.
