On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:30:50PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > ... "chkconfig NetworkManager off; service NetworkManager stop".
> 
> And rip it out by the roots. NetworkManager is a bad tool in any
> production environment, even if it's useful for traveling laptops and
> as an auto-detect tool at OS installation time.


Agreed. Yet another "works great on the author's laptop" product. It's main feature
is to stop the network when the user logs out. Great for servers.


> Fortunately, you can re-install system-config-network manually. It is
> available, even if it's not in your particular base installation
> setup.


Yes, I did so, but I do not see the usual GUI. system-config-network starts some
kind of erzatzprodukt text ui. Where is the old GUI?

I guess I will go and write a perl script to populate the ifcfg-ethX scripts directly...


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