On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 02:35 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > For clarification, I usually do have NM_CONTROLLED set for every > interface, except on laptops. In this case, I just wanted to instead > turn off NetworkManager and configure the interface manually. I see no > reason why it shouldn't be possible to tell a system service to stop and > expect it to stay stopped until I turn it back on again. That way, I can > tell NM to shutdown, do something I need to do, then get the prettified > laptop experience back again when I'm done (on the netbook). > > This was all to tftp various firmwares over to routers I was playing > with over the weekend. Soldering surface mount bits, placing wires, and > poking at serial consoles and firmware setup was trivial. The hardest > bit was telling a system service to stay stopped :) If just stopping it with 'systemctl stop NetworkManager.service' didn't do the job, I would imagine you were running up against systemd's bus activation feature; when something tried to poke NM via dbus, systemd would fire it up. Lennart may be able to suggest how you can avoid this, if it's possible. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
