initscripts

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 13:08:42 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen <fedora at cygwin.de> wrote:
> On Jan 22 13:17, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> NM reads "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*" files but you have
>> to test whether you have some settings that NM doesn't grok.
>
> As long as NM doesn't grok all possible settings from the ifcfg scripts,
> it's not exactly a seamless replacement. There are also probably lots
> of scripts using ifup/ifdown to handle ppp and pppoe connections on
> router machines. These commands may be replaced with newer variants,
> but they must not go away.

"must" is an interesting verb. :)

I wouldn't be surprised if the ifcfg scripts are deep-sixed by the
time we reach the Fedora release that'll be the base of RHEL 8.

If there are ifcfg settings that network understands but
NetworkManager doesn't, file a bug report or get ready to use a
keyfile under "/etc/NetworkManager/system-settings/" (check "man
nm-settings" for keyfile settings). The transition away from network
will be less of a challenge and less of a headache than the
transitions to systemd and Gnome 3, to name two.


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