Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

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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