> zcat is the gunzip binary called with the name zcat thanks to the magic of
> the hard link:
>
> [root@xxxxx ~]# ll `which zcat`
> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001 /bin/zcat
> [root@xxxxx ~]# ll `which gunzip`
> -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001 /bin/gunzip
This does not prove zcat and gunzip being hard links to each other.
There are just two files having the same number of links, the same size
and they were last modified at the same day.
Having the same inode number on a single filesystem proves them to be
hard links:
$ ll -i /bin/zcat /bin/gunzip
786622 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001
/bin/gunzip
786622 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001
/bin/zcat
And where's the third link?
$ find / -mount -inum 786622 -ls
786622 52 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001
/bin/zcat
786622 52 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001
/bin/gunzip
786622 52 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 50652 Feb 8 2001
/bin/gzip
> Change your
> ZCAT_COMMAND to
> ZCAT_COMMAND=/path/to/zcat
Many thanks! That did the trick. After setting it to /bin/zcat instead
of /usr/sbin/gunzip gzipped logfiles are handled as expected.
