Fedora 8 runlevel 3

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 08:08 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 15:16 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 01:43 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> >>> Bill Geng wrote:
> >>>> I just installed Fedora 8 on my desktop computer. My computer gets an
> >>>> IP address from my router which runs a DHCP server. It works at
> >>>> runlevel 5. I can access the Internet. After I changed the default
> >>>> runlevel from 5 to 3, my network interface cannot be bring up
> >>>> automatically. I have to run "ifup eth0" manually to get an IP
> >>>> address. Anyone can help me out.
> >>> I've had this problem too for one of my servers that runs nessus on 
> >>> Fedora8. I solved it by stopping the NetworkManager service and starting 
> >>> the "network" service.
> >>>
> >>> # chkconfig NetworkManager off
> >>> # chkconfig network on
> >>> # service NetworkManager stop
> >>> # service network start
> >>>
> >> Or to be more specific NetworkManager does not work at run level 3.
> > 
> > The best solution is:
> > 
> > 	# chkconfig --level 5 NetworkManager on
> > 	# chkconfig --level 5 network off
> > 	# chkconfig --level 23 network on
> > 	# chkconfig --level 23 NetworkManager off
> > 
> > That way NetworkManager runs at level 5 (GUI) and network won't, and
> > network runs at levels 2 and 3 and NetworkManager won't.
> 
> I'm not sure that's best; I generally boot to rl3 then maybe change to 
> 5. I don't know the consequences of that setup for me.

Should be none.  If you use "telinit 5" or "init 5" to change your run
levels, network should turn off and NM turn on at level 5.

>  NetworkManager 
> might be better for mobile users, but if you're affixed to a desk, what 
> works at rl3 should work equally well at rl5.

I agree.  Actually, I detest NM.  It's quite inconsistent and doesn't
like being told to use fixed IPs or routes or DNS servers or anything
like that.  If you use DHCP, NM is probably fine.

If you used a fixed network config (or just a few), then I use network
and multiple network profiles that can be launched from grub.  I have
grub entries that specify "netprofile=Office" and "netprofile=Home".
Works fine.

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