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Chapter 7.
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
file by specifying the time interval in minutes. If you modify
the configuration file, you must (as root) restart the daemon with the command
service rhnsd
restart
or
/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
service rhnsd status
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rhnsd status
at a shell prompt.
To disable the daemon, (as root) run the ntsysv utility and uncheck rhnsd . You can also (as root)
execute the command
chkconfig rhnsd off
. Using these two methods will only disable the ser-
vice the next time the system is started. To stop the service immediately, use the command
service
rhnsd stop
or
/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).