Re: what's running check4updates?

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On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:44 +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On my FC6 system, I don't have any automatically updating enabled; I
> just run yum once in awhile.
> 
> However, I am seeing that something is running something called
> "check4updates" and "0check4updates"; worse, it crashes, leaving the
> rpm db in an unstable state, usually entailing rpm --rebuilddb.
> 
> I don't see anything that looks likely in the Administration -->
> Server Settings --> Services app, nor do I see anything in /etc/init.d
> that looks likely. I installed smart awhile back, but I stopped using
> it as it gave too many problems. Does it do auto-updates? I assume it
> must be run by a cron job but I don't see one anywhere.

Check /etc/cron.* and see if the job is in there somewhere.  I seem to
recall smart doing something like that.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
>   Colin Brace
>   Amsterdam
> 
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