a linux virus: NetworkManager

[marc]

Avi Greenbury wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:00:43 +0800
> Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
>> Rashkae wrote:
>> > Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>> >
>> > Any DHCP client, including network manager, will overwrite the
>> > contents of resolv.conf
>> >
>> > Moving along, nothing to see here.
>> >   
>> 
>> Except that he does not use dhcp...
>
> I thought that when an interface was defined in /e/n/i, nm didn't
> bother looking and configured it as dhcp anyway?
>
> Must admit it's been a while since I last tried it, because I remove nm
> from machines that aren't dhcp, but I seem to recall coming across this
> behaviour.

I do the same thing. For simple home use with a router and dhcp, it
seems to manage, but introduce anything else, even resolvconf, and it
just doesn't seem to work.

My beef with NM is not its inherent brokenness, but that it doesn't
operate by managing /interfaces, up/down et al. which is surely the
right way.

I like the fact that uninstalling it now brings up the option to leave
the "unmet dependency" for Ubuntu desktop, rather than first suggesting
to uninstall most of Ubuntu!

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."