On 04/07/2010 06:03 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:34:35PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 04/07/2010 10:51 AM, Tom H wrote: >>>>>>> I've never found a need to reboot on changing hostnames. The most >>>>>>> drastic action I've taken was to "service network restart". >>> >>>>>> One wold assumme if yo are using 'service network start' you are not >>>>>> using NM so your comments about the changing hostname may not apply to >>>>>> the OP's system. >>> >>>>> Unless I'm out of my mind...that assumption would not be true..... >>>>> Even if you use NM you can still use "service network restart". When >>>>> one uses NM the directories /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default >>>>> and /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices are empty. This is the case on my >>>>> system. >> >> I would highly recommend you DON'T use "service network restart" if >> you're using NM. The two are not compatible in many areas. >> >>>> I have no opinion on the soundness of this, but "service NetworkManager >>>> restart" is what I use myself. >> >> I believe that's what's required if you do some manual reconfig of the >> network behind NM's back. >> >>> There is a "NM_CONTROLLED" variable that can be set in the ifcfg-* >>> scripts to use one or the other (although I do not see where my F13 >>> init.d scripts check for its value.) >> >> I'm not sure they do. I believe the idea is that NM would ONLY futz >> with interfaces marked thus and leave the others alone. >> >> With both classic and NM enabled, the normal startup sequence would >> "service network start" at sequence 10, then "service NetworkManager >> start" at sequence 23 The way I read it, classic could play with all >> the NICs and NM would only touch the ones marked "NM_CONTROLLED", >> undoing what classic did to them. > > Just to be clear, NM_CONTROLLED is not a marker, it's a variable. You > would set NM_CONTROLLED=no for an interface where you didn't want NM > to monitor or change its state. Yes, it is a variable. If the content of it is anything other than "yes" or if the variable isn't defined, NM is supposed to ignore the interface. I won't swear to that. There's virtually no NM documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
