Red Hat Network Daemon; Configuring; Viewing Status; Disabling - Red Hat NETWORK 3.7 Reference Manual

The Red Hat Network Daemon (
dates and notifications. The daemon, which runs in the background, is typically started from the ini-
tialization scripts in
Tip
Provisioning-entitled systems served by an RHN Satellite Server may have actions immediately ini-
tiated or pushed to them. Refer to Section 6.4.2.6.1 System Details
enabling this feature.
To check for updates,
This is a small application that actually makes the network connection to RHN. The Red Hat Network
Daemon does not listen on any network ports or talk to the network directly. All network activity is
done via the
rhn_check
3.1. Configuring
The Red Hat Network Daemon can be configured by editing the
configuration file. This is actually the configuration file the
important setting offered by the daemon is its check-in frequency. The default interval time is four
hours (240 minutes). If you modify the configuration file, you must (as root) restart the daemon with
the command
service rhnsd restart
Important
The minimum time interval allowed is one hour (60 minutes). If you set the interval below one hour, it
will default to four hours (240 minutes).

3.2. Viewing Status

You can view the status of the rhnsd by typing the command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd status

3.3. Disabling

To disable the daemon, (as root) run the ntsysv utility and uncheck rhnsd. You can also (as root)
execute the command
vice the next time the system is started. To stop the service immediately, use the command
or
rhnsd stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd stop
) periodically connects to Red Hat Network to check for up-
rhnsd
/etc/init.d/rhnsd
runs an external program called
rhnsd
utility.
at a shell prompt.
chkconfig rhnsd off

Red Hat Network Daemon

or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd
rhnsd
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd restart
. Using these two methods will only disable the ser-
.
Chapter 3.
.
Details for instructions on
located in
rhn_check
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
initialization script uses. The most
service rhnsd status
.
/usr/sbin/
.
or
service