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...; up on another. So your key isn't visible and only root can change a system device. A system device gets activated before the desktop. So you're not depending on having access to gconf etc. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/sec-User_and_System_Connections.html > > Do you know of a place I can set a static name that NetworkManager > won't override? That would be ideal. I just doesn't make sense > that the machine's internal relationships would depend on its > external connections. > See above. It's standard dh...

On 04/26/2015 06:31 PM, Peter Larsen wrote: > On 04/26/2015 07:26 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> How can I block network setup (via NetworkManager) from changing >> the machine's hostname whenever the network configuration changes? > > Make it a system connection instead of a user connection. Or give the > host a static name on install and don't allow dhcp to override

Is anyone frustrated by Network Manager? I wish CentOS just used the basic configuration files like the ones on BSD-style OSes. Those are so simple in comparison. Each time I reboot, it seems like the configuration file I create for Network Manager gets destroyed and replaced with a default file. Nothing in the default file would actually make sense on my network, so I'm not even really sure