> > I just activated Red Hat Update Agent and it is trying to complete the > > download of updates that keep failing (been trying for two days) -- > Uhm, what do you mean with "keep failing"? Does the Red Hat Update > Agent fail to download the packages completely? If so, that is > a different problem than you have described previously. I made reference to it in case that failure might explain this one. It did finally finish running and loading this afternoon. There was one error. As "Installing" was running at /var/spool/up2date/xinetd-2.3.7-5.i386.rpm I received the following unfriendly popup: fatal RPM error Temporary failure in name resolution. > > How might I toggle rhnsd on, please? > > rhnsd is a daemon (see "man rhnsd", where it is explained) which is > togglable via "redhat-config-services" or on the command-line ( > "chkconfig rhnsd on", "chkconfig rhnsd off", "chkconfig --list > rhnsd"). It is the client that polls RHN for queue actions. You > need to understand the different things you can do with RHN. Ran "chkconfig rhnsd on" as root and got: Bash: chkconfig: command not found. > There are good docs on RHN here: https://rhn.redhat.com/help/ My experience with Linux documentation has been that while it is far more voluminous than that for M$ it can be equally incoherent at moments. I will take your experienced counsel and see if RedHat has slain the docs-dragon ... time is my enemy these days ... I need functionality more than the joy of discovery and the thrill of victory over compatibility- challenged apps, kernels, and hardware. Thanks for helping ... guess I am one of the high-maintenance geeks. doc -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
