D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > | On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 22:02 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > | > At the moment however I've found that commenting out everything in the > | > puplet script combined with eliminating all the yum-updatesd links > | > from /etc/rc.d/rc*.d. has solved the problem (at least for now) If > | > some future yum update run should restore those to running condition > | > I'll have to remember to test that save button before redoing my > | > 'fix' > | > | Simply run: > | > | yum remove yum-updatesd > | > | And get rid of it, if you're not going to use it. Puplet won't do > | anything without it, and you don't need it for manual updating. > > The old fashioned Red Hat way of changing what things are started at > starup is chkconfig. > > $ /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep yum > yum-updatesd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > Suggested command (untested): > # /sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off > > chkconfig --levels 345 yum-updatesd off