On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:01:16PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Jun-00, 17:00 (CDT), Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:08:30AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > Rationale: this is because an admin might edit a conffile without > > > updating the links, resulting in an inconsistent system. > > > > I don't believe that this is the problem. As far as I understood it, > > what happens is this. Call the files /etc/foo.conf (the conffile) and > > /var/pkg/conf (the hardlink). > > > > (1) Sysadmin edits /var/pkg/conf. No problems: /etc/foo.conf remains > > a hardlink to /var/pkg/conf and the files are still in sync. > > Not necessarily true -- it depends on the editor. Some editors "edit" > /etc/foo.conf by creating a copy, and then moving the copy over the > original when a save occurs. For example, emacs can be configured to > behave this way. If this is done, the hardlink is broken. > > But your rationale (2) is also correct and sufficient.
I now understand. I think we could even have both present. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/