M A Young wrote: <Snip>
The rhnsd daemon is started from a start up script (check chkconfig --list rhnsd to see whether it is started at boot) and checks for updates every couple of hours (use chkconfig rhnsd off to stop the startup and services rhnsd stop to stop it if it is live). Otherwise, you could be signed up to
Turned off.
the redhat-watch-list which tells you of security patches etc. when they are released, or you may have configured something on the web site http://rhn.redhat.com/ to notify you of changes.
Nope. This is coming in on the system mail account (e.g. root@xxxxxxxxx)
Also there is the rhn-applet, which is the blue tick/red exclamation mark at the bottom right hand corner of the default desktop, which can be removed as any other applet, though I don't remember whether it stays gone when gnome is restarted.
That's off as well.
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