On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:14 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > micheal wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 18:24 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > [trimmed} > > > > > > Another thing to check is for rhnd. On a default FC4 install it will > > still check with red hat for updates (Why? I have yet to understand) > > If you look at the script, rhnsd only starts if you have a > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid. You won't have a systemid unless you > register with RHN. > > -- > William Hooper > Strange, I don't doubt what you are saying. Yet, I do not have /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid on my system. About every 5 minutes, ethereal shows traffic going back and forth between my computer and xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com. Maybe it is the rhn-applet doing this? Micheal
