Worthless daemon

[Mike]

TNWestTex <mcforum <at> bellsouth.net> writes:

> 
> 
> 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

as root:
service yum-updatesd stop
chkconfig yum-updatesd off

will stop the daemon and prevent it starting at boot time.

You can get it to do yum updates for you automatically by configuring
/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf and leaving the daemon running.

Or you can update yourself manually using yum