Re: Installing file outside package in /etc

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hi,

Thus quoth  Utkarsh Singh  on Wed Apr 28 2021 at 13:02 (+0200):
> Hi,
>
> On 2021-04-24, 16:44 +0200, Sergiu Ivanov <sivanov@colimite.fr> wrote:
>
>> Note however that /etc/hostname appearing to be a normal file may be
>> misleading, since it may also be a hardlink to a file in the store.
>> It is beyond my knowledge/motivation to figure out whether it really is
>> or not :-)
>
> You can make use of GNU Find utility to find more than one file that
> refer to the same file on a file system, i.e., to the same inode.  For
> example to search for same file as /etc/hostname in /etc directory you
> can use:
>
> $ find /etc -samefile /etc/hostname
>
> You can read more here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Hard-Links

Ah, nice, thanks!  I had no idea find could help with that!

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Sergiu