Re: "/etc/init.d/NetworkManager quit" ?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:57 +0000, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Dominik George a écrit :
> > 
> > If NM replaces traditional networking in RC, then what I would expect 
> > that it will get networking up on start and down on stop. That's exactly 
> > what you describe NM to be doing ;).
> > 
> > Or am I misunderstanding something?
> 
> In 0.7.1, yes. But according to Dan, not any more in 0.8.X.

That's correct, at least for some wired devices with a system
connection.  It's to ensure that restarting NM as part of a security
update or whatever does not interrupt network connectivity server-type
boxes.

It's complicated.  Previous mechanisms didn't have a daemon running in
the background actively managing the network.  So there was nothing to
restart.  Unfortunately using Unix signals there's no way to really
express "terminate but don't take stuff down".  We could however use a
D-Bus call to do so, or something like that and keep -TERM as taking
interfaces down.

Dan