Re: Stop nm-system-settings when NM is stopped

[Gene Heskett <gene heskett verizon net>]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>since NM 0.7 has hit the Debian archive, I got several bug reports, where
> users changed the configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, restarted
> NetworkManager (via /etc/init.d/network-manager restart), and wondered, why
> their changes were not picked up.
>
>The reason is, that nm-system-settings keeps running, when you restart the
>NetworkManager daemon.
>
>One obvious answer to this issue, is to monitor /etc/network/interfaces (and
>/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/,
>/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf for that matter) via inotify in
> the nm-system-settings service.
>
>Nonetheless, I think nm-system-settings should stop running, whenever
>NetworkManager is stopped (just as it is started, whenever NM is started).
>
>Now I'm wondering, what the best way is, to do that:
>Should we just extend the init scripts and add a "killall
> nm-system-settings". Or should nm-system-settings monitor NetworkManager
> (via D-Bus) and shut down as soon as the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
> goes away.
>
>Thoughts, Opinions?
>
>Michael

Not a fix, but a confirmation that something seems to be running this 
nm-system-settings thing even though I am not using NM, all my stuff is 
through the network interface, fixed addressing etc.  But I am getting 
selinux alerts from it nonetheless.  I startx manually, and when it has 99% 
initialized is when the alert pops up.  However, a survey of the system 
cannot find a process by that name, now or immediately after the startx inits 
a few shells for me.

Its a minor niggle to me, but to a new bee, might be alarming, and should be 
fixed.  The system has been relabeled several times without effecting this.

-- 
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