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Old 08-31-2011
What files or programs have the ability to change your default network scripts and config
What files or programs have the ability to change your default network scripts and config files? All 3 of these very important files got changed on their own.


/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-wlan0
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-wlan0
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Old 08-31-2011
Depends. What's your system?
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Old 08-31-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Depends. What's your system?
fedora Smilie. Does this forum allow signatures so you don't have to ask every time? I always forget to tell you that.
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Old 08-31-2011
No, but we do have a Fedora subforum.

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It's NetworkManager.

If you don't want to turn the entire silly thing off, it might be better to work with it than to edit config files manually.
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Old 08-31-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
No, but we do have a Fedora subforum.

---------- Post updated at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:25 PM ----------

It's NetworkManager.

If you don't want to turn the entire silly thing off, it might be better to work with it than to edit config files manually.
Why would it mess with my default settings? It has never done that before?
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