Red Hat Network Daemon - Red Hat NETWORK BASIC - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 3.3 User Reference Manual

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
the configuration file, you must (as root) restart the daemon with the command
or
restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/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
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
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 minutes. If you modify
at a shell prompt.
chkconfig rhnsd off

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service rhnsd
service rhnsd status
or
service