[NBLUG/talk] Automatic Redhat Downloads or a Hack?

[Micxz (lovedialup.com)]

entemann at thread-softly.com wrote:
> 
> My DSL connection has been sluggish for the past couple of days and while
> investigating it, I discovered that my Redhat 9 linux box was merrily
> downloading what at first glance look like Redhat updates.  I have used
> up2date and also Ximian's redcarpet to update the system manually but it was a
> couple months ago.  Is it possible that I inadvertently set up one of the two
> to automatically download updates, and if so how can I check and  turn it off?
> 
> Don
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Hi Don'

I'm not using redhat 9 yet, but on my redhat box ther is a tool goes
like so:

(1) "su -" to root.
type: up2date --configure 

There are a bunch of options there for the update program.

up2date --configure
Again to confirm that the changes have taken place.

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Micxz