FC8: Block Auto Updates Without GUI
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Mar 2 03:50:34 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 03:45 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> My security software found that my small FC8 box
> that has no GUI is automatically making ftp
> connections with a mirror sight. How can I
> prevent that from happening? For now, I have
> blocked it with iptables, but I would like to
> stop the attempts.
>
> In case this the issue, here are the present
> settings of yum-updatesd.conf :
>
> [main]
> run_interval = 3600
> updaterefresh = 600
> emit_via = dbus
> dbus_listener = yes
> do_update = no
> do_download = no
> do_download_deps = no
>
> Please let me know if you would like to see
> another configuration file.
>
> Thanks for your help.
----
/sbin/service yum-updatesd stop
/sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off
Are you sure that it is yum-updatesd that is creating the ftp
connections?
Craig
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list