Whatever mechanism PLD (or whatever distro you're running) uses to start and stop sysv services. On fedora that's "/sbin/service NetworkManager stop" or System->Administration->Services, but other distros do it differently.
The sledgehammer is (as root) "killall -TERM NetworkManager", but that doesn't let the system clean up after itself. Dan On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 08:58 -0700, Craig wrote: > How do i do that? > > --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Patryk Zawadzki <pat...@pld-linux.org> wrote: > > From: Patryk Zawadzki <pat...@pld-linux.org> > Subject: Re: network manager Question > To: "Craig" <fasteliteprogram...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "Dan Williams" <d...@redhat.com>, > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:54 AM > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Craig > <fasteliteprogram...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > NetworkManager: <info> starting... > > NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_dbus_manager_start_service(): > Could not acquire > > the NetworkManager service as it is already taken. > > NetworkManager: <WARN> main(): Failed to start the dbus > service. > > NetworkManager: <info> exiting (error) > > This means you didn't stop the NetworkManager service prior to > issuing > this command. You can't run two copies of NM in parallel. > > -- > Patryk Zawadzki > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list