Re: Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?

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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>



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