On 07/09/2012 04:14 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 10 July 2012 00:11, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back
>>> ground updates.
>>>
>>> This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded
>>> it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed
>>> my VMs.  I did not ask for these updates.  I am afraid to go
>>> on the Internet!
>>>
>>> How do I turn off these background updates?
>>
>> I'd suggest looking at the output returned by --
>>
>> sudo yum list yum-\*
>
> Just checked for myself. The yum-cron package looks as if it is the
> guilty party.
>
> Name        : yum-cron
> Arch        : noarch
> Version     : 3.2.29
> Release     : 30.el6
> Size        : 35 k
> Repo        : rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6
> Summary     : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job
> License     : GPLv2+
> Description : These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job.
>              : Install this package if you want auto yum updates
> nightly via cron.
>
> Alan.
>

Hi Alan,

$ yum list yum-\* | grep -i cron
yum-cron.noarch

# rpm -qa \*yum-cron\*
#

Not installed.   RATS!

Yippee!  I think I found the little bugger!
       /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate

# ENABLED
#     true - Run yum-autoupdate
#     false - Do not run yum-autoupdate (default)
#   + anything other than true defaults to false
ENABLED="true"

Ah HA!  "ENABLED" is now "false".  And I will reboot
just to make sure everyone is listening!

Thank you!

-T




-T