Can up2date be completely turned off without removing it?

Sc Adio Communications Srl office at adio.ro
Wed Jul 14 19:21:16 UTC 2004


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 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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 at sbcglobal.net> 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.
> 
> 
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