On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 12:55:00PM -0400, jludwig wrote: > 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 Since you did not reboot you also need to: service rhnsd stop In /etc/init.d/rhnsd you will see: # interval in minutes to connect to Red Hat Network. The minimum # allowed value is currently 1 hour; by default rhnsd will connect # every other hour. This should be more than suitable for the vast # majority of systems. You may adjust the interval by editing the # file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd. INTERVAL=240 You might elect to set the interval to days or even a week. This way it will run on occasion in case you forget to check big time. Do not forget yum. There is a cron job for yum that you may wish to turn off if it is not. See: $ chkconfig --list | grep yum yum 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/dull where most of what I type originates.
