-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I installed a server with the "workstation" configuration and simply "rpm -e'ed" NetworkManager. The result was just fine. The old network configuration layer is still underneath - the gui is gone though - but who used that.
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: | On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Ahmed El Zein <[email protected]> wrote: | |> I am looking at the logs and the only network related log that coincides |> with the resolv.conf file changing is: |> <29> Arp 6 06:40:49 NetworkManager[542]: ifcfg-rh: |> updating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 |> |> at that point /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 changes and gets |> an NM_CONTROLLED="yes" added to it and the /etc/resolv.conf file is |> replaced with the single lined one. | | NetworkManager, frankly, has no use on a typical server. Its dynamic | manipulations of network configuration are unpredictable, unintuitive, | and far more suited to a laptop or traveling desktop in an environment | where upstream DHCP is reliably configured. It is a complex and | powerful tool that *STILL* has no way to configure pair-bonding, | 'bridged' connections for KVM supporting hosts, or DHCP client | configuration with client identifiers except to use a text editor and | turn off NetworkManager by one means or another. It's one of the | upstream vendors least useful development efforts. | | Unfortunately, we're now pretty much stuck with it, due to all the | recent system dependencies on it. Ripping it out by the roots became | infeasible with Scientific :Linux 6. Fortunately, pre-configuring | 'NM_CONTROLLED=no' is a new capability, and doing so early in the | kickstart '%post' scripts seems to be very helpful in preventing such | issues. In syntax: | | grep -q ^NM_CONTROLLED= [filename] || \ | echo 'NM_CONTROLLED=no' >> [filename] | sed -i 's/NM_CONTROLLED=.*/NM_CONTROLLED=no/g' [filename] | | Deducing the files to do this to is a bit more awkward, since you | don't want to touch '.bak' files or '~' files, but there are functions | to do that already available in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ | utiliti4es. Do you need help with that? - -- Robert E. Blair, Room C221, Building 360 Argonne National Laboratory (High Energy Physics Division) 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, USA Phone: (630)-252-7545 FAX: (630)-252-5782 GnuPG Public Key: http://www.hep.anl.gov/reb/key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFNn1IAOMIGC6x7/XQRArHQAKC3ou2RC19qeg401vU4Lz6ocwJ8ngCXaeqz z1yTtl8N+iMCiieNaNT1pw== =cauz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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