[Novalug] how to stop packagekitd ??

[Walt Smith]

List,

A few days ago, I started a software update from Firefox.
( checking for packages ) when a web page made FF want some plugin.
I did click to start the plugin "search".
F12, gnome.

It keeps restarting, doing continuous D/L over dialup.

Closing FF and restarting doesn't help.
Closing the X login account and doing X relogin doesn't help.
I could not find a real "Stop" in the "software update" gui.

It has D/L more than 11 Megbytes in a file. Each time it starts
it starts the D/L file from scratch. ( filename isn't relevent, 
I don't believe ).  I think it's a sqlite type .gz file.

**  In short,  I can't keep it stopped.

crond is enabled in services.
Below is too much info... !!!<G>

PS what the H-ll is a "smolt" ???

What direction should I NOT look, and where SHOULD I look ???

here's a sample of attempt:

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ps ax [snip most of crap]
17108 ?        S      1:17 /usr/libexec/gam_server
18934 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/ppp-watch tenexorg 
18936 ttyS0    Ss+    0:00 pppd lock modem crtscts asyncmap 00000000 defaultroute usepeerdns user waltech at tenex.org remotenam
19022 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/packagekitd
19024 ?        S      0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py refresh-cache yes
19027 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps ax
[root at waltech3 anacron]# kill 19022
[root at waltech3 anacron]# kill 19024

[root at waltech3 cron]# pwd
/var/spool/cron
[root at waltech3 cron]# ls -al
total 8
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 2009-11-05 11:13 .
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 2009-11-09 14:20 ..

[root at waltech3 var]# cd /etc
[root at waltech3 etc]# less anacrontab
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron

# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
RANDOM_DELAY=45
# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22

#period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
1       5       cron.daily              nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7       25      cron.weekly             nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 45     cron.monthly            nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


[root at waltech3 etc]# ls cron*
cron.deny  crontab

cron.d:
0hourly  smolt

cron.daily:
cups  logrotate  makewhatis.cron  mlocate.cron  prelink  readahead.cron  tmpwatch

cron.hourly:
0anacron

cron.monthly:
readahead-monthly.cron

cron.weekly:
99-raid-check



Walt...................