Red Hat Network Daemon; Configuring; Viewing Status; Disabling - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 Reference Manual

Chapter 3.

Red Hat Network Daemon

The Red Hat Network Daemon (
updates and notifications. The daemon, which runs in the background, is typically started from
the initialization scripts in
To check for updates,
. This is a small application that makes the network connection to RHN. The Red
/usr/sbin/
Hat Network Daemon does not listen on any network ports or talk to the network directly. All
network activity is done via the

1. Configuring

The Red Hat Network Daemon can be configured by editing the
configuration file. This is actually the configuration file the
most 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
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).

2. Viewing Status

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

3. Disabling

To disable the daemon, (as root) run the ntsysv utility and uncheck rhnsd. You can also (as
root) execute the command
service the next time the system is started. To stop the service immediately, use the command
service rhnsd stop

4. Troubleshooting

If you see messages indicating that checkins are not taking place, the RHN client on your
system is not successfully reaching Red Hat Network. Make certain:
• your client is configured correctly.
• your system can communicate with RHN via SSL (port 443). You may test this by running the
) periodically connects to Red Hat Network to check for
rhnsd
/etc/init.d/rhnsd
runs an external program called
rhnsd
utility.
rhn_check
service rhnsd restart
at a shell prompt.
chkconfig rhnsd off
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd stop
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd
rhn_check
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
initialization script uses. The
rhnsd
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd restart
service rhnsd status
. Using these two methods only disables the
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