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