Dropbear

Tag: NetworkManager

  • Quieting dbus

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    I run a program called logcheck which regularly scans the logfiles looking for “interesting things”. One of these interesting things (to logcheck, not to me at first) was dbus complaining about mythtv.  The logs look something like this: Nov 17 05:08:18 elmo dbus-daemon[1621]: dbus[1621]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.236″ (uid=999 pid=3669…

  • Making peace with Network Manager

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    Painless they say, automatically they say.  This is what the NetworkManager manual page describes the daemon.  I’d like to say annoying and intrusive and I know there are a lot of people out there that feel the same.  The program is used to set-up network connections and provides a system tray thingy for Gnome and…