On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:51:33AM -0800, Mark Foster wrote: > libvirtd is starting dnsmasq! This is on RHEL5.5 > > I don't see it mentioned in /etc/init.d/libvirtd or /etc/libvirt/* or > /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd > > 4337 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order > --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid > --conf-file= --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --except-interface lo > --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 --dhcp-lease-max=253 > > How can I properly disable this funcationality? (I'm running dnsmasq for > other purposes on the host, and the libvirtd incantation conflicts). It's because of this: --- postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /sbin/ldconfig # We want to install the default network for initial RPM installs # or on the first upgrade from a non-network aware libvirt only. # We check this by looking to see if the daemon is already installed /sbin/chkconfig --list libvirtd 1>/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? != 0 -a ! -f /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml ] then UUID=`/usr/bin/uuidgen` sed -e "s,</name>,</name>\n <uuid>$UUID</uuid>," \ < /usr/share/libvirt/networks/default.xml \ > /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml ln -s ../default.xml /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart/default.xml fi /sbin/chkconfig --add libvirtd --- I put in a request to get it removed. -- James M. Leddy Technical Account Manager Red Hat Inc. work: 212-510-4119 cell: 631-891-8703