Killing "news" on RH7.3 and YDL2.1?
 

I have noticed a process that runs, and a cron that runs, and other sorts of junk happening with the user "news"...

Anyone know a good way to eliminate this?

I could go digging through every file in the some billion files, and delete things relating... but I would like to first find out if there is a simple one step two step process to eliminating 'news'. We dont use it, its a waste, and I really dont think we need it running...

Any help would help, thanks.

if it's a crontab, just look in /etc/cron.d and find which entry it is.
For a user, just userdel news.

if it's something that's got a manpage however, just run apropos news or whatever the command is. if this is on a redhat machine, just do an rpm -qf `which news` (replacing news with whatever the command being run is named).

Hope this somewhat helps

Aaron

check in /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.hourly for inn-* . I had similar problem but just removed these files. I think the corresponding prog is called innd. Just do a su - news and check the mails for the fellow.
I found a few hundreds and deleted them.
--Sarin

Ah!
 

Guh, right under my nose... I had looked in the cron directories, and didnt see anything ... yeah, well, ok, so it was early!! Yes, a couple items in there for news. So I moved them to a cron.off directory, and shouldnt see those things happen anymore.

Thanks for the input!