On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote: > Hello, > > On Aug 19th I updated the OS packages on a SL4.5 server. Recently I > discovered that updating yum-conf had reactivated the nightly yum > updates that I had disabled. Evidence is in the postconfig script : > > rpm -q --scripts yum-conf-45-2.SL > postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): > /sbin/chkconfig --add yum > /sbin/chkconfig yum on > /sbin/service yum restart >> /dev/null > [...] > > => I consider this as potentially dangerous and I am raising the > alarm signal... > > I do not know if this is the same for other versions of SL. At least with sl53 it doesn't seem to be... $ rpm -q --scripts --triggers yum-conf <no output> $ rpm -q yum-conf yum-conf-53-3.SL.noarch however we must have been worried by this at some point since as part of our standard nightly cron jobs we have code that does: /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 yum off and we also replace the /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron file just to be sure :-) -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | "Computers are different from telephones. Computers do not ring." | | -- A. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", p. 32 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Jon Peatfield, _Computer_ Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge | | Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/