Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jul 12 18:57:19 UTC 2004
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:55:00PM -0400, jludwig wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 11:15, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 17:04:24 +0200,
> > Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > > Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb Bruno Wolff III um 16:53:
> > >
> > > > I had up2date mostly turned off but it was still doing (at least) DNS lookups
> > > > for download.fedora.redhat.com which was bringing up my ppp connection.
> > > > This is made worse by all of the nbound malware probes being done, so that the
> > > > link almost never will be idle long enough to shut down on its own.
> > > >
> > > > I was able to solve the problem by removing up2date, but I was wondering if
> > > > there was a less drastic step I could have taken?
> > >
> > > chkconfig rhnsd off
> >
> > rhnsd was off.
> >
> > > stop and don't run the rhn-applet-gui (Red Hat Network Alert
> > > Notification Tool)
> >
> > This I was as sure how to turn off. I removed the notifcation from the
> > desktop, but I wasn't sure that was the same as turning it off. The
> > setup option that seemed like was supposed to turn it off, would only
> > do it for the current session and it would come back at the next login.
> > Once I removed it from the desktop I didn't see the icon anymore, but
> > I was not confident that it was really off.
> The icon may be gone but not necessarily the daemon.
> Try at the xterm;
> chkconfig --list rhnsd
> if on in levels 2, 3, 4, or 5 ;
> chkconfig rhnsd off
Since you did not reboot you also need to:
service rhnsd stop
In /etc/init.d/rhnsd you will see:
# interval in minutes to connect to Red Hat Network. The minimum
# allowed value is currently 1 hour; by default rhnsd will connect
# every other hour. This should be more than suitable for the vast
# majority of systems. You may adjust the interval by editing the
# file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd.
INTERVAL=240
You might elect to set the interval to days or even a week. This way
it will run on occasion in case you forget to check big time.
Do not forget yum. There is a cron job for yum that you may
wish to turn off if it is not. See:
$ chkconfig --list | grep yum
yum 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
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T o m M i t c h e l l
/dev/dull where most of what I type originates.
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