What is in root's crontab? Also, look for the package yum-cron with
it's associated config file at /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron.

Jared Moore

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:08 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:
>
> Dec 02 01:46:20 Updated: openssl-1.0.1e-15.el6.x86_64
> Dec 02 01:46:20 Updated: ntpdate-4.2.6p5-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> Dec 02 01:55:56 Updated: openssh-5.3p1-94.el6.x86_64
> Dec 02 01:55:56 Updated: openssh-server-5.3p1-94.el6.x86_64
> Dec 02 01:55:57 Updated: openssh-clients-5.3p1-94.el6.x86_64
>
>
> What is really strange is that these systems cannot perform a "yum update"
> because there are errors (deliberate for now):
>
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: cfengine-3.5.2-1.el6.x86_64 (@achieve3000-x86_64)
>            Requires: libtokyocabinet.so.8()(64bit)
>            Removing: tokyocabinet-1.4.33-6.el6.x86_64 (@base)
>                libtokyocabinet.so.8()(64bit)
>            Updated By: tokyocabinet-1.4.47-6.el6.x86_64 (achieve3000-x86_64)
>                Not found
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>
>
> These systems started off as minimal installs, and I just installed what we
> needed for each (they are appliances).
>
> There is no (as far as I can tell) yum daemon running.  Here is what is in
> the crons:
>
> [root@memcached11 etc]# ls cron*
> cron.deny  crontab
>
> cron.d:
> 0hourly  memcached_check  raid-check  setdate  sysstat  yumcleanall
>
> cron.daily:
> cups  logrotate  makewhatis.cron  mlocate.cron  prelink  readahead.cron
> tmpwatch
>
> cron.hourly:
> 0anacron  mcelog.cron
>
> cron.monthly:
> readahead-monthly.cron
>
> cron.weekly:
> [root@memcached11 etc]#
>
> and here is what is in /etc/init (for upstart):
>
> [root@memcached11 etc]# ls init
> control-alt-delete.conf  quit-plymouth.conf  readahead-collector.conf
> start-ttys.conf
> init-system-dbus.conf    rc.conf             readahead.conf
> tty.conf
> kexec-disable.conf       rcS.conf            readahead-disable-services.conf
> plymouth-shutdown.conf   rcS-emergency.conf  serial.conf
> prefdm.conf              rcS-sulogin.conf    splash-manager.conf
>
> and finally, here is rc3.d:
>
> [root@memcached11 etc]# ls rc3.d/S*
> rc3.d/S01sysstat       rc3.d/S13rpcbind      rc3.d/S25cups
> rc3.d/S55memcached       rc3.d/S90crond
> rc3.d/S02lvm2-monitor  rc3.d/S14nfslock      rc3.d/S25netfs
> rc3.d/S55memcached11212  rc3.d/S91bacula-fd
> rc3.d/S10network       rc3.d/S15cf-monitord  rc3.d/S26acpid
> rc3.d/S55sshd            rc3.d/S95atd
> rc3.d/S11auditd        rc3.d/S15mdmonitor    rc3.d/S26haldaemon
> rc3.d/S55zabbix_agentd   rc3.d/S98cf-execd
> rc3.d/S11portreserve   rc3.d/S18rpcidmapd    rc3.d/S26udev-post
> rc3.d/S80postfix         rc3.d/S98denyhosts
> rc3.d/S12rsyslog       rc3.d/S19rpcgssd      rc3.d/S28autofs
> rc3.d/S82abrt-ccpp       rc3.d/S99local
> rc3.d/S13cpuspeed      rc3.d/S20kdump        rc3.d/S30nfs
> rc3.d/S82abrtd
> rc3.d/S13irqbalance    rc3.d/S22messagebus   rc3.d/S50mcelogd
> rc3.d/S82abrt-oops
>
> CentOS 5 uses a service:  yum-updatesd, which doesn't exist in CentOS 6 (or
> at least, I don't see it on my systems)
>
> So, my question is:
>
> 1.  What process would have done this automatic update?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> JBB
>
>
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