On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 20:50 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 19:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 19:20 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:10 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:10:07 -0700 > > > > Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > > > > > > The only solution I have found so far is to: > > > > > 1) properly re-create /etc/resolv.conf to what it should be > > > > > 2) set the immutable flag on it (chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf) > > > > > > > > That works in fedora, but even better (as others have said) > > > > is disabling NetworkManager service and enabling network instead > > > > (i.e. go back to the old and unimproved days :-). > > > > > > I understand that. The entire point of this exercise was: > > > > > > 1) Not to go back to the old ways > > ---- > > I think you have a misunderstanding of the role of both 'network' and 'NetworkManager' services. > > > > 'network' service is clearly better for server usage as it is a true startup daemon that doesn't require any user interaction. > > > > 'NetworkManager' at present provides for userland control which means that it isn't all that useful until a user logs in. > > No misunderstanding here at all. > > Indeed, this was the _original_ intent for NetworkManager. But according > to several pieces of information posted here and elsewhere (such as the > NetworkManager To Do page at http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerToDo), > it is morphing into being more. It could very well replace the old > network service in due time. > > I know I could have done things using system-config-network and the > network service. I chose not to for a very specific set of reasons. ---- ok - it is still a work in progress and since you understand that - I'll leave you to it. It seems much more sane to me to use network rather than use NetworkManager and an immutable /etc/resolv.conf but hey, that's just me. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
