On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:14:01PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:21 +0100, nodata wrote: > > Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 11:00 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams: > > > On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 14:33 +0100, nodata wrote: > > > > > > > > Can anyone point me at the docs for configuring NetworkManager without > > > > the tray applet? > > > > > > > > I've tried google, the gnome.org nm page, and the man pages. I can't > > > > find a thing. > > > > > > NetworkManager provides a D-Bus API for controlling network connections, > > > as seen here: http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/spec.html . > > > > > > For setting up network connections without a user settings service, > > > NetworkManager provides a system-wide settings service which reads > > > ifcfg-* files like you'd normally create on Fedora. Be sure to set > > > NM_CONTROLLED=yes, and NetworkManager should pick them up and use them > > > as long as ONBOOT=yes (which means bring it up automatically). > > > > Thanks for this. I've got two more questions: > > > > 1. How will users find out about this? I can't find any documentation > > without using the magic NM_CONTROLLED search term. > > What exactly are you trying to find out? For the most part, if you have > an ifcfg file that doesn't use bridges or aliases, NM will just pick it > up and handle it provided NM_CONTROLLED=yes or is absent. NM_CONTROLLED > is about as well documented as any of the other options in ifcfg files. That's a bug maybe worth filing against initscripts; the /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt file is fairly useful but may have slipped out of currency. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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