On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 14:24, Clint Harshaw wrote: > I'm trying to shut off any services that aren't necessary, so I'm > wondering if rhnsd is necessary if I'm using yum to carry out updates > via mirrors. > > (I tried the archive, but apparently it's down: > redhat.com is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. > If you wish to place an order for Red Hat products, please call > 1-888-REDHAT1.) > > The description leads me to believe that since I'm not checking in with > RHN, it's unnecessary: > > "This is a daemon which handles the task of connecting periodically to > the Red Hat Network servers to check for updates, notifications and > perform system monitoring tasks according to the service level that this > server is subscribed for" > > So what do you all think? Is it okay to shut off rhnsd in Services? > > Thanks, > Clint After upgrading from RH9, I was receiving regular errors in my logs about there not being an appropriate channel in RHN (sorry I can't remember the exact error messages as this was quite a while ago). After stopping rhnsd, these errors disappeared. (I use up2date, rather than yum, btw). Cheers -- David Keen <keend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
