Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 11 July 2012 04:47, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP on the prior version. Thank you for the help, -T Something of interest if you have to roll back. http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 7/14/12 8:31 AM, William Scott wrote: On 11 July 2012 04:47, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP on the prior version. Thank you for the help, -T Something of interest if you have to roll back. http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory Very cool! But which version of yum has this? The web page (above) says the 'history' command was added sometime around the end of 2009. The yum we are currently using (in SL 5.5) is yum-3.2.22-26 with a build date of 04 May 2010 and does *not* have the 'history' command. Thanks! - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ --- Information without accountability is just noise. - P.L. Nelson
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 07/09/2012 11:26 PM, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com 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
how do I disable background updates?
Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? Many thanks, -T
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Alan.
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 10 July 2012 00:11, Alan Bartlett a...@elrepo.org wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Just checked for myself. The yum-cron package looks as if it is the guilty party. Name: yum-cron Arch: noarch Version : 3.2.29 Release : 30.el6 Size: 35 k Repo: rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 Summary : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job License : GPLv2+ Description : These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. : Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron. Alan.
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 7/9/12 6:11 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Alan. Todd, More importantly - why are you not being notified by yum when the background updates occur? Yum should be sending email to root when that happens. Who does root point to in your /etc/aliases file (last line of the file)? Also, I strongly suggest you subscribe to the scientific-linux-errata email list (non-discussion) wherein Pat Riehecky sends out notices of impending errata updates a day in advance. - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ --- Information without accountability is just noise. - P.L. Nelson
Re: how do I disable background updates?
Hi, please look into the directory /etc/cron.daily/ and see if there is a yum.cron file. Also, it's worth to investigate files in the directory /etc/yum.repo.d/. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? Many thanks, -T
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 07/09/2012 04:14 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:11, Alan Bartlett a...@elrepo.org wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Just checked for myself. The yum-cron package looks as if it is the guilty party. Name: yum-cron Arch: noarch Version : 3.2.29 Release : 30.el6 Size: 35 k Repo: rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 Summary : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job License : GPLv2+ Description : These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. : Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron. Alan. Hi Alan, $ yum list yum-\* | grep -i cron yum-cron.noarch # rpm -qa \*yum-cron\* # Not installed. RATS! Yippee! I think I found the little bugger! /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate # ENABLED # true - Run yum-autoupdate # false - Do not run yum-autoupdate (default) # + anything other than true defaults to false ENABLED=true Ah HA! ENABLED is now false. And I will reboot just to make sure everyone is listening! Thank you! -T -T
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 10 July 2012 00:43, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Yippee! I think I found the little bugger! /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate # ENABLED # true - Run yum-autoupdate # false - Do not run yum-autoupdate (default) # + anything other than true defaults to false ENABLED=true Ah HA! ENABLED is now false. And I will reboot just to make sure everyone is listening! Excellent. Thank you! You're welcome. Alan.
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 07/09/2012 04:26 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: On 7/9/12 6:11 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Alan. Todd, More importantly - why are you not being notified by yum when the background updates occur? Yum should be sending email to root when that happens. Who does root point to in your /etc/aliases file (last line of the file)? Also, I strongly suggest you subscribe to the scientific-linux-errata email list (non-discussion) wherein Pat Riehecky sends out notices of impending errata updates a day in advance. - Larry Hi Larry, I usually do not read root's mail. I wonder if there is a way to read it with Thunderbird without setting up sendmail. Hmmm. -T
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com 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, 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
Re: how do I disable background updates?
On 07/09/2012 05:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com 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
Re: how do I disable background updates?
Hi Todd, On 7/9/12 7:05 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 07/09/2012 04:26 PM, P. Larry Nelson wrote: On 7/9/12 6:11 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back ground updates. This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go on the Internet! How do I turn off these background updates? I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- sudo yum list yum-\* Alan. Todd, More importantly - why are you not being notified by yum when the background updates occur? Yum should be sending email to root when that happens. Who does root point to in your /etc/aliases file (last line of the file)? Also, I strongly suggest you subscribe to the scientific-linux-errata email list (non-discussion) wherein Pat Riehecky sends out notices of impending errata updates a day in advance. - Larry Hi Larry, I usually do not read root's mail. I wonder if there is a way to read it with Thunderbird without setting up sendmail. Hmmm. -T Ok, first off, IMHO, you should read email to root Back in the early days of unix, it was pretty much an unwritten rule (sometimes it was a written local policy) that root in /etc/aliases *had* to point to an email address which would be reliably read by a human. I don't think the new generation of admins follows that as much anymore. But then again, unix systems back then were always servers of some sort or another. Second, sendmail should always be part of any SL installation. By default, the standard sendmail, as provided by TUV, does not listen for incoming email, i.e., it is not acting as an email server and thus is not a worry to have to deal with - just install it. Third, if root in /etc/aliases has not been modified to send to an email address, email to root stays on the local machine. You can easily read root's email on the local machine with /bin/mail (if you're logged in as root or su to root), which is an ascii text bare-bones email reader dating back to the Pleistocene. Doesn't matter much since system email sent to root is just ascii text anyway. Make it a point to check root's email, if not daily, at least once a week. If you have logwatch enabled, there will be daily emails. My $.02 - Larry -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:lnel...@uiuc.edu| http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ --- Information without accountability is just noise. - P.L. Nelson
