Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?

[Alexander Dalloz]

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
stop and don't run the rhn-applet-gui (Red Hat Network Alert
Notification Tool)

Alexander


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