Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > lee wrote: > >>> As I understand it, you have asked NM to manage your ethernet connection >>> (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1). >>> I believe that NM over-writes /etc/resolv.conf if it cannot establish >>> the specified connection. >>> In my opinion this is silly; but that is what NM does. >> >> What it probably does is managing em2 which doesn't exist anymore >> because I turned off the network adapter in the BIOS. Since em1 wasn't >> used before, it perhaps tries to keep it disabled by overwriting >> resolv.conf. >> >> Isn't there any way to configure networkmanager? >> >>> If you don't want NM to manage your connection you should say so >>> in the above ifcfg file. >>> >>> Or at least that is my understanding of the setup. >> >> It's better to disable networkmanager when you don't want it to do >> anything. Why keep a service running that isn't supposed to do >> anything? > > Well, I would do both - > if you don't want NM to manage any interface why say you do > (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1)? Why change it when networkmanager is disabled anyway? > And I don't see any point in running the NM service > if you don't want to use it. > > I'm not convinced you have shown there is any kind of bug in NM. I don't think I have. It's more Fedora being silly having two different and conflicting things installed by default at the same time without giving users a choice which one to use, without sufficient documentation about any of them and with dependencies on networkmanager that need to be fixed. -- Fedora 17 -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
