Re: Elmer's

[Tony Murray <tonymurray fastmail fm>]

Éric Brunet wrote:

> Simply you need to have someone physically logged in to be able to use
>
> ssh, which doesn't make sense as ssh is primarly useful when you are away
> from the computer.
>
> Think leaving the computer at home knowing you will connect to it from
> work. Before you leave you log in to establish a network connection.
> During your trip, there is a micro outage of power, the computer reboots
> without any problem, but as noone is logged in any more, the sshd is not
> accessible. This is a problem introduced by NetworkManager and its
> concept of setting the network up only when someone is logged in front of
> the computer.
>
>  
The simple solution to this is start the NetworkManager daemon on boot 
and have the init scripts initially bring(or try to bring) up a network 
interface.

dbus-send?

Just my simple view from the outside ;)

Tony