On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
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> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:54:21PM +0000, Winnie Lacesso wrote:
>> Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>>
>> > This disables the super-clever extra-useful network manager feature
>> > where it enables networking when a user logs in into the console and
>> > helpfully disables the networking when a user logs out from the console.
>>
>> Do I grok this aright - you set up an SL workstation to do network stuff
>> in the background, i.e: dhcp renewal, ntp, wee-hours automatic security
>> updates, possibly other things (overnight backups? rsync of data to
>> central server?); but if no one's logged onto the console, those all just
>> stop working bcs NM has shut off the network?
>
> The normal SL setup (after the installer) is to have "available to all users"
> enabled on all system network interfaces and then none of this nonsense happens,
> the network functions normally (always enabled).
>
> But I have seen this problem - after the installer, "available to all users" is "off"
> and you see the silly behaviour. I discount it as an installer malfunction.

I don't use the GUI but NM'll start the network with the ifcfg-<nic>
files (or keyfiles) set up. And, as Konstantin says, if you use the
GUI, NM'll start the network without anyone logging on when "available
to all users" is selected.