Red Hat's response to my system-config-samba rhel6 issue

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Dec 6, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:42:15AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> "Jim Gasek" <jim-ESJ+pY3k0/ZeoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Related to the two big trends?:
>>>> - upstart (changing of the start/stop paradigm)
>>>> - NetworkManager (phasing out of traditional networking).
>>>> 
>>>> I dislike both trends.
>>> 
>>> Okay, I'll bite..  What do you dislike about NetworkManager?  Except for
>>> the fact that one first-run you need to configure it via the UI, once
>>> it's configured you can set it up to auto-connect at boot time.  You can
>>> still set up a static network config the way you did before, and indeed
>>> you can specify that NM not control an interface.
>> 
>> NetworkManager is fine on a laptop. On a desktop or a server, in most
>> environments, I don't want the IP, DNS, and so forth to change or not
>> start until a user logs in: I want networking to start when the machine
>> comes up and stay put.
> 
> As I said, you can configure NM to do that.  You do need to log in on
> the console the first time, but then you can just Edit Connections ->
> [Wired] -> System eth0 -> Edit   and then select Connect automatically
> (and possibly the Available to all users).

You can actually do this within the installer too, then you don't even
have to bother with installing any gui bits on the box. :)

I have multiple RHEL6 installs using NM w/o any GUI installed, and
the network comes up just fine on boot, static IP and everything.


>> Simple human-readable, human-writable config files: they work well.
> 
> True.  You can also still use /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> and tell it to NOT use NM..  But then you'll possibly need to enable the
> "network" service on startup.

But NM can also start up the network using those exact same human-readable,
human-writable config files. It even notices when they've been changed and
updates on the fly without having to do a service restart (at least for
some changes, like manually specified dns servers, anyway).


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Jarod Wilson
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