[ubuntu-us-ut] stopping network manager

[Christer Edwards]

In ubuntu network manager service is part of the dbus init script so
if you stop that script you're also stopping a number of other things.
 It would be nice if it were unique like it is in fedora though.

On 10/28/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:17:04AM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
> > On 10/28/07, Andrew Johnson <andrewjohnson at mail.weber.edu> wrote:
> > > > How can you turn off network manager?  ie you're at a cafe - you connect
> > > > to the wireless, get some email, now you want off the wireless system to
> > > > work on some confidential stuff.  Just right-clicking on icon to turn
> > > > off wireless doesn't seem to break the connection (or it restarts
> > > > itself).  Is there a command line like /etc/network-manager off  or some
> > > > such
> >
> > NetworkManager is a service.  Just use /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
>
> Well, I'd do that if I had /etc/init.d/NetworkManager on my system.
>
> apt-file list network-manager | grep init.d
>
> returns nothing.
>
> There is an entry for Network Manager in the startup programs for
> Gnome, but whether that covers NM applet alone or both I cannot say.
>
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