On 07/09/2012 05:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back
>> ground updates.
> (snip)
>> How do I turn off these background updates?
>
> One of the packages added by SL is yum-autoupdate (in SL 6). According to:
>
> http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/features/added
>
> yum-autoupdate
> Summary : Automatically update your machine daily via yum.
> Added for those users who want their system automatically updated
> without having to worry about doing it by hand.
> This is installed by default.
>
> As already pointed out,

By me

 > this is the one that performs auto update in
> SL 6 and can be configured by editing /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate .
> yum-cron is used in SL 5 but is not installed by default.
>
> Akemi
>

yum-autoupdate is suppose to be off by default.  I wonder who
turned the turkey on?

Here is hoping libvirt is fixed on SL 6.3.  I wonder when
that is due out.  (Better late and correct, than on time
and broken.)

-T