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Chapter 6. Red Hat Network Daemon
The Red Hat Network Daemon periodically connects to the Red Hat Network to check for
updates and notifications. The default interval time is two hours (120 minutes). This can be
configured in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
utes. If you modify the configuration file, you must (as root) restart the daemon with the
command
service rhnsd restart
Note
The minimum time interval allowed is one hour (60 minutes). If you set the interval below one hour, it
will default to two hours (120 minutes).
You can view the status of the rhnsd by typing the command
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd status
To disable the daemon, (as root) run the ntsysv utility and uncheck rhnsd. You can also
(as root) execute the command
disable the service the next time the system is started. To stop the service immediately, use
the command
service rhnsd stop
The same rules you configured for the Red Hat Update Agent apply to the Red Hat Network
Daemon (see Section 3.1).
file by specifying the time interval in min-
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd restart
at a shell prompt.
chkconfig rhnsd off
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd stop
service rhnsd status
. Using these two methods will only
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