On Jun 8, 2011, at 17:17 , Alec T. Habig wrote:

> Lamar Owen writes:
>> I'm assuming you filed a bugzilla upstream?  Also, in your ifcfg-ethX
>> files you have the ability (that is fully documented in upstream's
>> documentation) to tell NM to not manage a particular interface, but
>> just pull it up.  It's just a matter of learning a newer way of doing
>> things.
> 
> The big problem with this is that even if you do this, NM returns "ok"
> to the startup sequence well before it actually gets around to bringing
> up your network(*) - then things like autofs and nis fall over.

There's a NETWORKWAIT variable, documented in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt. Shouldn't it help to set this to yes?

NB no, I'm not using NM either.

- Stephan

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