How to disable or remove Up2date for good

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> ok, I'll steal my thread back..hehe...um, after doing the chkconfig 
> --levels 2345 rhnsd off command, I still get the twirling, annoying red 
> ! ball at the bottom right of my screen. Was hoping that wouldn't be so. 

Install all the available updates and then it'll change to a nice, 
relaxing blue tick, which is not nearly as annoying ;-)

Or remove up2date as I suggested earlier, which will take out the icon 
for all future logins.

Paul.