https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/restorecond/m-p/4193743#M32502 Someone or something has made an additional hard link to your /etc/resolv.conf file.<BR /><BR />(Normally a file has just one hard link to it; removing that link will cause the file to be deleted. This is what the "rm" command does.)<BR /><BR />Use "ls -li /etc/resolv.conf" to identify the inode number of the file. To find the extra link, use<BR /><BR />find / -inum <INODENUMBER> -xdev<BR /><BR />or (GNU find specific)<BR /><BR />find / -samefile /etc/resolv.conf -xdev<BR /><BR />It's possible that you won't find nothing at all: in this case, whatever caused the problem may have also fixed it afterwards.<BR /><BR />The message might be caused by someone editing the resolv.conf file: if so, find out which editor is used. This message might be caused by the way the editor creates backup versions of the file. If this is the cause, it's probably harmless. You might be able to avoid the message if the editor can be configured to create backup files in an alternate way.<BR /><BR />MK</INODENUMBER> Thu, 08 May 2008 07:28:57 GMT Matti_Kurkela 2008-05-08T07:28:57Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/restorecond/m-p/4193742#M32501 restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) Invalid argument<BR /><BR />Can anyone please help me to resolve this as I see this messages in syslog.<BR /><BR />Thanks Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/restorecond/m-p/4193742#M32501 zubi_1 2008-05-08T00:00:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/restorecond/m-p/4193743#M32502 Someone or something has made an additional hard link to your /etc/resolv.conf file.<BR /><BR />(Normally a file has just one hard link to it; removing that link will cause the file to be deleted. This is what the "rm" command does.)<BR /><BR />Use "ls -li /etc/resolv.conf" to identify the inode number of the file. To find the extra link, use<BR /><BR />find / -inum <INODENUMBER> -xdev<BR /><BR />or (GNU find specific)<BR /><BR />find / -samefile /etc/resolv.conf -xdev<BR /><BR />It's possible that you won't find nothing at all: in this case, whatever caused the problem may have also fixed it afterwards.<BR /><BR />The message might be caused by someone editing the resolv.conf file: if so, find out which editor is used. This message might be caused by the way the editor creates backup versions of the file. If this is the cause, it's probably harmless. You might be able to avoid the message if the editor can be configured to create backup files in an alternate way.<BR /><BR />MK</INODENUMBER> Thu, 08 May 2008 07:28:57 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/restorecond/m-p/4193743#M32502 Matti_Kurkela 2008-05-08T07:28:57Z