[rhelv6-beta-list] No tui network setup on server install

solarflow99 solarflow99 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 06:13:36 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Troy Dawson <dawson at fnal.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
> I guess I'll be the first to bring this up.
>
> Doing a basic server install does not install Network Manager - that is
> good.
>
> It also does not install system-config-network - that is bad.
>
> Looking at what rpm's are available, system-config-network isn't even
> offered, it's gone - that is very very bad.
>
> So, I look through the RHEL6 documentation, maybe they've replaced it with
> something.  Yes, they replaced it with NetworkManger.
> Although in the documentation for editing the configuration files it says
> "The /etc/sysconfig/networking/ directory is used by the Network
> Administration Tool (system-config-network) and its contents should not  be
> edited manually."
>
> So I think to myself, let's look in Fedora 13 to see what they changed it
> to.  But behold, system-config-network is *in* Fedora 13.
>
> I'm flabbergasted.  I'm totally stunned.
> Is RHEL not supposed to be for servers first and desktops second?
> Why would you purposefully make a sys-admins life harder by removing their
> network configuration tool.

if you type "setup" do you still get the option to configure network settings?




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