How to stop updates notifier daemon on Intrepid 8.10

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 12:32:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote:
> I have  a bunch of distro's installed, and being on dialup, like to save
> bandwidth.
>
> When I fire up Kubuntu Intrepid, some daemon is started which phones 
home
> to get notifications of  available updates. This was verified when I tried
> to run "apt-get update", and was told that there was an active lock on
> accessing the file. I tried again, when gkrellm showed the incoming traffic
> had stopped, then "apt-get update" ran ok.
>
> I've looked in synaptic, and packagekit is not installed, update manager
> doesn't show any references to update daemons in it's installed 
packages,
> and kde doesn't show anything either.
>
> Looked in KDE's system settings > service manager, and can't see 
anything
> there, unless I'm missing something.
>
> Also Looked in sysv-rc-conf, but nothing resembling an updates daemon 
is
> there.
>
> Just booted Ubuntu Intrepid for comparison, and that is also searching for
> updates, but there is an applet icon for it in the top taskbar. Right
> clicking on that gives a drop down menu, then clicking preferences, then
> updates, there is a checkbox "Check for updates", which I'm just about to
> uncheck, but on Kubuntu Intrepid, there isn't even an applet icon that I
> can right click on to stop this checking for updates on bootup.
>
> Anyone any idea where else I might look to stop what appears to be an
> updates notifier daemon?
>
> All a bit bizarre.
>
> Nigel.

Have you look in Adept's Edit Software Sources section? there you can set 
how often to check, or turn it off checking altogether

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