Re: init.d script

[Nikolaus Filus <nfilus gmx net>]

beerfan wrote:
> Previous list messages refer to a startup script in
> /etc/init.d/NetworkManager but the Ubuntu Dapper package does not seem
> to include this file. Am I missing anything without this file? The
> lack of documentation requires me to ask.

Ubuntu has one in /etc/dbus-1/event.d/

> I can only guess that a startup script would allow network manager to
> startup as a daemon so that connections could be established before

Network manager always starts as daemon, as it is a backend-frontend
architecture. The applet you see in gnome/kde connects to nm through dbus.

> the user logs in. If so, this would be a very desirable feature for me
> since I share my laptop with my wife and getting that pesky connection
> established is currently such a pain.

currently not supported, but planned for 0.7 (AFAIK)


Nikolaus