Re: nm-system-settings problem

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On Monday 12 May 2008 13:05:26 Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dan Williams (dcbw redhat com) said:
> > > Now, the question is:  What does this change screw up???
> >
> > Originally we did monitor /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
> > (which is one of the 3 hardlink locations) but many people expect to
> > change the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ instead.  Not
> > everyone uses system-config-network evidently.
>
> Moreover, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is defined to be
> the active location for current configuration - networking/profiles/default
> isn't actually read by the actual scripts, so it's probably not what
> NM should be looking at to be in sync.

First of all, I missed some of the replies to my message because of email 
filter I do so I just caught these replies.

If /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ is the "correct" main directory, then 
system-config-network should be "fixed" to also use it as the main directory 
(I don't see s-c-network going away anytime soon).

Regardless, the nm-system-settings-hardlinks patch I should work whether 
NetworkManager's directory is changed or not (at least that is what my 
testing showed) ... see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444502 
for the patch.  This fix is a bit crude (at least I think so) but it does 
seem to work.

-- 
Gene