On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:57:19 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since you did not reboot you also need to: > > service rhnsd stop This wasn't the problem. The service had been turned off many reboots ago. > 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 This might be an issue. Even though things seemed to stop after update was removed. I had thought that yum was just a fancy version of rpm, I didn't expect it to do polling. I think it is probably disabled, but I won't get to check until I get home.