Please where is the consolehelper control

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 05:36:07 UTC 2007


mcforum at bellsouth.net wrote:
> How can I stop the query for system updates from occurring before I enter the command.  I don't want the icon popping up telling me about the available updates.  I want to do it myself.  When I enter "yum update" it has to wait for the automatic query that I don't want to use to finish.  I looked at sysconfig, pup, pirut and didn't find any place to inhibit this action.
> 
> Robert McBroom
> 

To disable the applet:
System->Personal->Sessions

To disable the daemon:
# /sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off
# /sbin/service yum-updatesd stop




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