From: Sunder Iyengar (Sunder.Iyengar@VERITAS.COM)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 21:35:26 EDT
The link count on the / directory could have changed due to the creation of
a sub-directory under /.
For example,
drwxr-xr-x 24 root system 1024 Aug 21 11:24 .
# mkdir /sample
Now, the link count on / is,
drwxr-xr-x 25 root system 1024 Aug 23 11:33 .
Sunder.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adams Kevin J [mailto:kevin.adams@PHS.COM]
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2002 07:11
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: How to determine what the links to / are
The other day Tripwire told me the number of links to / had changed from 30
to 31:
changed: drwxr-xr-x root 1536 Aug 17 02:01:20 2002 /
### Phase 5: Generating observed/expected pairs for changed files
###
### Attr Observed (what it is) Expected (what it should be)
### =========== ============================= =============================
/
st_nlink: 31 30
To verify this I ran istat as follows:
# istat /
Inode 2 on device 10/4 Directory
Protection: rwxr-xr-x
Owner: 0(root) Group: 0(system)
Link count: 31 Length 1536 bytes
Last updated: Thu Aug 22 02:01:24 2002
Last modified: Thu Aug 22 02:01:24 2002
Last accessed: Thu Aug 22 12:02:40 2002
How can I tell what the links are?
Kevin Adams
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