[Discuss] RHEL 6.2 Subscription Manager - solved

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/23/2012 09:29 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 04:04 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> I have a valid version of RHEL 6.2 at work. I installed it as a Virtual
>> Machine with a Host-only network, which means no Internet. This will be
>> used for out Financial Engineers to run our products on their Windows
>> laptops.
>> While installing this I specified not to subscribe to RHN but when
>> logged in as root I get an icon that tells me I have an invalid
>> certificate. When I click on it I get the subscription manager. Does
>> anyone know how to disable this notification.
>>
>>
> Yesterday I disabled and stopped the rhnsd service, but I missed the
> rhsmcertd service which is the service that controls the subscription
> manager. I was able to disable rhsmcertd, but not stop it either through
> the gui or command line. A reboot shows that the rhsmcertd is stopped.
> The second issue here is a daemon process, rhsm-icon. This process is
> apparently the guy that posts the icon regarding the certificate. There
> is an rhsmd entry in /etc/cron.daily, but as I read the comments, this
> only writes into syslog. I can kill the rhsm-icon, but it does start
> during boot, but not directly from any of the scripts in /etc/init.d.
>
>
Removing the subscription manager solves the problem.

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