What is the use /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/* files ?

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Issue

  • Should /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/network be hardlinks?
  • Should system-config-network insert "NETWORKING_IPV6=no" in the networking files if IPV6 is not selected in
    system-config-network -> Edit eth0 -> General Tab.
  • Why shouldn't same configuration details be available in both network files? Don't we want the profile to reproduce our network configuration?
  • If we remove both files and run system-config-network it makes two separate files. Neither indicates that we do not use IPV6, which is not selected in the configuration.

  • /etc/sysconfig/network

HOSTNAME=<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="http://server.example.org" target="_blank">server.example.org</a>
NETWORKING=yes
  • /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/network
HOSTNAME=<a class="make_room_for_kcs" href="http://server.example.org" target="_blank">server.example.org</a>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8

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