Nothing in root crontab, /etc/init.d/yum doesn't exist, etc..

I figured out what it was.  We are slowly installing CF-Engine on our
systems, and these were in the list of packages to be kept up-to-date.  So
what happened last night was that CF-Engine updated those packages.

Thanks to all for replying


JBB


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Michael Tiernan
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Bayer 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  This morning I came in to work to a bunch of emails that many if not all
>> of my CentOS 6 systems automatically updated openssl, ntpdate and openssh:
>>
>
> In scientific linux we see that. It has to do with a change in the way the
> yum scripts work (I believe.)
>
> The "fix" is to remove the file /var/lock/subsys/yum yum looks for it when
> trying to do an automatic update which is triggered by /etc/init.d/yum
>
> (Why you remove the lock to disable the script I still don't know.)
> --
>     << MCT >>   Michael C Tiernan.
>     http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan
>     Non Impediti Ratione Cogatationis
>



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