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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
