On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:54:21PM +0000, Winnie Lacesso wrote: >> Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >>> >> > This disables the super-clever extra-useful network manager feature >> > where it enables networking when a user logs in into the console and >> > helpfully disables the networking when a user logs out from the console. >> >> Do I grok this aright - you set up an SL workstation to do network stuff >> in the background, i.e: dhcp renewal, ntp, wee-hours automatic security >> updates, possibly other things (overnight backups? rsync of data to >> central server?); but if no one's logged onto the console, those all just >> stop working bcs NM has shut off the network? > > The normal SL setup (after the installer) is to have "available to all users" > enabled on all system network interfaces and then none of this nonsense > happens, > the network functions normally (always enabled). > > But I have seen this problem - after the installer, "available to all users" > is "off" > and you see the silly behaviour. I discount it as an installer malfunction.
I don't use the GUI but NM'll start the network with the ifcfg-<nic> files (or keyfiles) set up. And, as Konstantin says, if you use the GUI, NM'll start the network without anyone logging on when "available to all users" is selected.
