use this command to turn it of chkconfig --level345 rhnsd off and chkconfig --level345 yum off by the next reboot rhnsd won`t start anymore or you can manually turn it off now service rhnsd stop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nifty Hat Mitch" <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:15 PM Subject: Re: Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it? > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:00:21PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Do not forget yum. There is a cron job for yum that you may > > > wish to turn off if it is not. See: > .... > > > 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. > > yum like up2date is a tool for fetching rpm packages. > Think of it as a front end. > > Both use rpm to do the actual install. > > The 'yum protocol' is well suited for the distributed mirror > tricks and now up2date also includes yum along with http and ftp > as 'protocols' to define how a mirror presents packages it fetches. > > > > -- > T o m M i t c h e l l > /dev/dull where most of what I type originates. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >