[PLUG] Network issues

Bill Barry barryb at proaxis.com
Mon Apr 20 06:17:48 UTC 2009


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700
> Bill Barry <barryb at proaxis.com> dijo:
>
> > > This is not the first time I have tried to figure out how to launch an
> > > app from the command line. Maybe there is a command I can use to find
> > > the launch term for all installed packages? Or hopefully can be used
> > > with grep or something in order to get just the one I want?
>
> > dpkg -L network-manager
> > will tell you which files the package installed
> > That's a capital L.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Unfortunately, it lists about 50 files. :(
>
> Scanning the list I saw "/etc/init.d/NetworkManager" which looked
> promising. But that got me:
>
> jjj at Devil7:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager
> [sudo] password for jjj:
> Usage: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager {start|stop|restart|force-reload}
>
> I think I need to find out what launches the GUI.
>


>
> It used to be that the GUI launcher was in System > Administration >
> Network. My "Network" launch item is missing. If someone who has
> "Network" listed there can open the menu editor and right click on the
> item, it will say what the command to launch it is.
>

Until someone can answer that question directly, what happens when you
finish the above thought.
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
?
Bill



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