On 02/02/2011 01:16 AM, Christopher Stolzenberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to turn off the nightly updates?
> 
> # chkconfig yum off
> # rm /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> # yum remove yum-autoupdate
> 
> Is that correct?

not quite.

i believe it should be "chkconfig yum-cron off". once turned off, i do
not believe you need the 'rm' and 'yum remove'.

running "chkconfig --list|grep yum" will show what you do have enabled.

whereas, on my system;

$ chkconfig --list|grep yum
yum             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
yum-cron        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
yum-updateonboot        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
yum-updatesd    0:off   1:off   2:on    3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
$


so you see that "chkconfig yum off" only gets "yum", which should be off,
unless you are running a "yum" command.

you may want to run "system-config-services" to disable;

 'yum-cron' -- run yum daily via cron

 'yum-updateonboot' -- 'yum update' at boot

 'yum-updatesd' -- periodically checks for updates and send notifications

saves a lot of command line entries.


hth.

-- 

peace out.

tc.hago,

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