On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:46 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:37:14PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I'm not too shy to use Network Manager. I looked into Network Manager, > > but it's a bit beyond me. Would you excuse my request of hand-holding > > and hint me in the right direction? Or, better yet, a tutorial. I've > > not googled anything aimed at the naive first timer. > > Well, assuming you're using GNOME: > > this worked for me: > > # yum -y install caching-nameserver NetworkManager-vpnc > > # chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on > # chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on > # chkconfig --level 345 dhcdbd on > append to /etc/sysconfig/named : > > OPTIONS="-D" In FC6 adding this option to /etc/sysconfig/named is not needed. Taken from /etc/sysconfig/named: # DISABLE_NAMED_DBUS=[1y]-- If NetworkManager is enabled in any # runlevel, then the initscript will by default enable named's D-BUS # support with the named -D option. This setting disables # this behavior. Thanks for the dhcdbd reminder. I had totally forgotten about that one. Regards, Patrick