bfd wrote: /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf > /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts > /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-lo > > > Someone on another list suggested that these were hard > links, but the ls command does not show this, although some > of them have the same inode number. Having the same inode makes it a hard link :) I think ls only shows 'l' for symbolic links. -Thomas