manually fixing IPs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.03.11 10:12, Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 02:35 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> 
> > For clarification, I usually do have NM_CONTROLLED set for every
> > interface, except on laptops. In this case, I just wanted to instead
> > turn off NetworkManager and configure the interface manually. I see no
> > reason why it shouldn't be possible to tell a system service to stop and
> > expect it to stay stopped until I turn it back on again. That way, I can
> > tell NM to shutdown, do something I need to do, then get the prettified
> > laptop experience back again when I'm done (on the netbook).
> > 
> > This was all to tftp various firmwares over to routers I was playing
> > with over the weekend. Soldering surface mount bits, placing wires, and
> > poking at serial consoles and firmware setup was trivial. The hardest
> > bit was telling a system service to stay stopped :)
> 
> If just stopping it with 'systemctl stop NetworkManager.service' didn't
> do the job, I would imagine you were running up against systemd's bus
> activation feature; when something tried to poke NM via dbus, systemd
> would fire it up. Lennart may be able to suggest how you can avoid this,
> if it's possible.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off

Lennart

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