Updated packages?
I've just reinstalled Fedora to have another look at it and it announced that there were updated packages available. Could someone tell me whether this information is contained in the installation itself, or has the program surreptitiously connected to the internet? If the latter, could you tell me whether this is logged anywhere, so that I can find out what it has done? Thank you.
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Is it possible to control the network connection at all? I'd ticked the box for it NOT to start on boot, so I was not impressed that it connected without my settings having been entered. I have no idea what settings it used to connect itself. There's a network setting with buttons to activate and deactivate, but deactivating is pointless - if the modem is on, it just reconnects itself after briefly disconnecting. If I do ifconfig eth0 down/up will that work and stay off, or will it just ignore that too? |
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Thanks, unSpawn, the settings were as you said. What is the point in having settings if they are of no effect? (That's just an exclamation of frustration, not a question requiring answer.) Thanks anyway.
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Hmm. Any "weird" messages in /var/log/messages?
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OK. Does 'chkconfig --list network' show it's off for all runlevels? If not, say you want to disable it in runlevels 3, 4 and 5 do 'chkconfig --level 345 network off', then list again to see if it worked.
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The computer's connected by ethernet cable to the router/modem (but the switch is packing up from all of this turning off and on, so I am going to start using a new one.) |
Well, if you really don't want it on the net, unplug the eth cable ;)
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