Red Hat Network Daemon; Configuring - Red Hat NETWORK 4.0.5 Reference Manual

Red Hat Network Daemon

The Red Hat Network Daemon (
to check for updates and notifications. The daemon, which runs in the background,
is typically started from the initialization scripts in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd
Tip
Provisioning-entitled systems served by an RHN Satellite Server may have actions imme-
diately initiated or pushed to them. Refer to Section 6.4.2.8.1 System Details ⇒ Details
for instructions on enabling this feature.
To check for updates,
. This is a small application that makes the network connection to RHN. The
/usr/sbin/
Red Hat Network Daemon does not listen on any network ports or talk to the network
directly. All network activity is done via the
3.1. Configuring
The Red Hat
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
the initialization script uses. The most important setting offered by the daemon is
rhnsd
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).
rhnsd
.
runs an external program called
rhnsd
Network Daemon
configuration file. This is actually the configuration file
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd restart
Chapter 3.
) periodically connects to Red Hat Network
utility.
rhn_check
can be configured
/etc/init.d/rhnsd
located in
rhn_check
by editing
.
or
the