Re: NetworkManager clobbers /etc/yp.conf in fedora 14

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:56:42AM -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
> How do I politely ask NetworkManager to let me tell it what servers to
> use for ypbind/NIS?
> 
> Is there some newbie documentation I should be looking at? I searched
> the wiki at http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager but got no hits for
> ypbind or yp.conf. Also no hits for
>   man NetworkManager|grep yp
>   man NetworkManager|grep NIS
> 
> It is possible I am barking up the wrong tree. My basic problem is, I
> edit /etc/yp.conf and get NIS working, but the next time I reboot that
> file gets changed (and NIS stops working), even if I chmod it so no
> one has write privileges. I am assuming it is NetworkManager, because

You could always try this to set the immutable bit:

chattr +i /etc/yp.conf