2012/12/9 José Pablo Méndez Soto <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hello,
>
> I am playing around with SL instead of CentOS so to know which one behaves
> better or just to have a criteria on how they both differ, being RedHat
> re-distros.
>
> I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
> SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
> sessions until a user logs in.
>
> I tried the same on a CentOS  6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
> are users or no users logged in, it always have networking and you can SSH
> into it.
>
> Any idea about this difference? Can it be changed in SL so to initiate
> connections before a GUI log in?

On RHEL 6 and clones, network is managed by network-manager by
default. You need to disable network manager and configure interfaces
on traditional way.

Take look at NM_MANAGED on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*


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Eero