I didn't think of RedHat as a virus

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Net Llama! wrote:

> That would be the redhat network server, prolly checking to see if there 
> are any updates available.

   If you look in your rc#.d directory (for whatever runlevel you are 
running) you will probably see that 'rhnsd' is set to run (S93rhnsd).

   If you look at the contents of /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S93rhnsd you'll see that 
it has an INTERVAL=120, so it is checking for new updates awfully often.

   I changed my S93rhnsd to K93rhnsd so it doesn't run at all.  Haven't 
seen any problems because of this.  And I run 'up2date-nox -l' once per 
week to see what they have available for update.  And I run 'up2date-nox 
-u' if I want it to be updated :-)

      --- Jay


> 
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I'm monitoring some of my local network traffic for another reason,
> > and the first thing I saw surprised me.  It appears to be a very
> > quick HTTPS conversation between one of my machines and the host
> >    xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com.  (216.148.218.160)
> > 
> > My machine at this moment had NO browsers open, only xterms and
> > a Java application for which I have the source code.  I was not
> > conscious of any daemons that need to contact RedHat.  Anybody
> > know what this might be?
> > 
> > Partial trace is attached.  It was cut-and-paste from the xterm
> > where I ran the program, so I can't get any more information than
> > this, but presumably this will happen again.
> 
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