Worthless daemon

[Michael A. Peters]

TNWestTex wrote:
> What daemon gives these messages?  I have systems that do not connect to the
> internet so yum.updatesd is meaningless.  I've disabled the service to
> eliminate the annoying popups but still get these messages to the console.
> 
>  Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> Max failures exceeded, exiting now
> 
> These "features" should be opt in!!
> 
> Robert McBroom

I think it one of the gnome daemons that starts when you log into gnome 
- and I believe you can turn it off.