Re: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager quit ?

2010-02-27 Thread Dominik George
That's correct, at least for some wired devices with a system connection. It's to ensure that restarting NM as part of a security update or whatever does not interrupt network connectivity server-type boxes. I still don't get why people would want to use NetworkManager on servers anyway.

Re: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager quit ?

2010-02-27 Thread Graham Lyon
For use on servers: because it means that you only have to learn one tool. Also, why not? ;) On 27 February 2010 08:30, Dominik George n...@naturalnet.de wrote: That's correct, at least for some wired devices with a system connection. It's to ensure that restarting NM as part of a security

Re: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager quit ?

2010-02-27 Thread Graham Lyon
The point you're missing here is that network manager solves a very real problem with links going down after boot time and not automatically coming back up when they're available again (Read as: laptop users). A daemon was necessary to fix this and nothing like it had been done before. The design,

Re: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager quit ?

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Finger
On 02/27/2010 11:05 AM, Graham Lyon wrote: The point you're missing here is that network manager solves a very real problem with links going down after boot time and not automatically coming back up when they're available again (Read as: laptop users). A daemon was necessary to fix this and

No error is returned to user if system settings plugin fails connection update

2010-02-27 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Using NM 0.8 + nm-applet 0.8 I hit the following situation - if -update plugin method fails (for whatever reason - e.g. plugin is not able to create necessary file) - no error is returned to user. Error is correctly returned if creation of new system connection fails. I start