network vs NetworkManger services ??

William Case billlinux at rogers.com
Sat Aug 16 20:43:55 UTC 2008


Now I am getting more confused.

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 15:02 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:40 -0400, William Case wrote:
> >> I will see if I can get help with NetworkManager on the
> >> networkmanager-list at gnome.org , but meanwhile, so as to avoid asking
> >> really stupid questions in more than one place.  Is the 'network'
> >> service supposed to be running while the NetworkManager service is on?
> > 
> > There is no such thing as *the* 'network' service (in the sense I think
> > you mean). People on this list are using Network vs. NM as a shorthand
> > for two ways of configuring the various network components, some of
> > which are in the kernel and some in user space. Specifically when they
> > say Network in this context they mean the set of scripts invoked via the
> > system-config-network command.
> > 
> Yes there is. I have to check F9, but F8 has both the NetworkManager
> and network services. NetworkManager is started with run level 5,
> and network is started with run level 3 by default. (The spelling is
> important if you want to start/stop them manually.)
> 
> In any case, he would have gotten an error when he used the service
> command if there was not a network service.
> 
> Mikkel

When I run the system-config-services gui I get the following info:
NetworkManager => enabled, running, run level 2,3,4,5
network        => disabled, running, run level all off.

plus the same command line info as previously.

-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3
Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1




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