fc8 how to stop gui pop-up notifications of available updates??

[Robert L Cochran]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>
> | On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:02 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> | > At the moment however I've found that commenting out everything in the
> | > puplet script combined with eliminating all the yum-updatesd links
> | > from /etc/rc.d/rc*.d. has solved the problem (at least for now) If
> | > some future yum update run should restore those to running condition
> | > I'll have to remember to test that save button before redoing my
> | > 'fix' 
> | 
> | Simply run:
> | 
> |   yum remove yum-updatesd
> | 
> | And get rid of it, if you're not going to use it.  Puplet won't do
> | anything without it, and you don't need it for manual updating.
>
> The old fashioned Red Hat way of changing what things are started at
> starup is chkconfig.
>
>   $ /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep yum
>   yum-updatesd    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
>
> Suggested command (untested):
>   # /sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off
>
>   
chkconfig --levels 345 yum-updatesd off