On 07/09/2012 11:26 PM, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Todd And Margo Chester > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> How do I turn off these background updates? > >>From the header of file /etc/init.d/yum-autoupdate: > > Turn off > service yum-autoupdate stop > chkconfig --del yum-autoupdate > > Bye, > a > Hi Artifex, RPM says yum-autoupdate is installed: $ rpm -qa \*yum-auto\* yum-autoupdate-2-4.2.noarch But, it is not in init.d $ ls /etc/rc.d/init.d | grep -i auto $ Anyway, disabling it in /etc/init.d/yum-autoupdate seems to have done the trick. My VM are still here this morning and flash-plugin is still on the prior version. Thank you for the help, -T