On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Bluejay Adametz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> NetworkManager is *not the friend* of anyone running a server. It's >> unfortunately difficult to rip out by the roots, > > I've had pretty good luck with a 'yum remove NetworkManager'. The only > thing I've found depending on it has been NetworkManager-gnome, and > that's no big loss. Maybe I'm missing removing something, but that > seems to work. > > - Bluejay Adametz, CFII, A&P, AA-5B N45210 > > "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist > sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill The difficulty comes in if you need more sophisticated tools, such as VPN's or "cobbler" or start running KVM servers. I can't predict which toolkit will list NetworkManager as a dependency, and if you're in a dev server environment, it gets even trickier. That's why it''s useful to put "NM_CONTROLLED=no" in /etc/sysconfig/network becomes handy.