What daemon gives these messages? I have systems that do not connect to the internet so yum.updatesd is meaningless. I've disabled the service to eliminate the annoying popups but still get these messages to the console. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Unable to connect to yum-updatesd. Please ensure that the yum-updatesd package is installed and that the service is running. Max failures exceeded, exiting now These "features" should be opt in!! Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Worthless-daemon-tp15598185p15598185.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.