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, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****