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Differences between hard link and soft link
Hi all!
I'd like to know the differences between hard links and soft links. I've already read the ln manpage, but i'm not quite sure of what i understood. Does a hard link sort of copy the file to a new name, give it the same inode number and same rights? What exactly should I do to do this: I'm replacing the /usr/bin/passwd by /usr/bin/npasswd on over 400 servers. I did a ls -li on /usr/bin/passwd and came up with 5 same inodes, on of 'em being /usr/bin/chfn. I read the man page on chfn, it's a hard link to passwd. After moving /usr/bin/chfn to chfn.old, is this syntax correct ( for a hard link?): $ ln /usr/bin/npasswd /usr/bin/chfn Thanx for the help....  |
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