FC8: Block Auto Updates Without GUI

Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 2 14:33:24 UTC 2008


On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:30:07 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:24:30 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:00:45 +1030, Tim wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>>> 
>>> What security software?  Doesn't it have some way to tell you what is
>>> making the access?  If you can catch it in the act, yourself, using
>>> extra parameters with the netstat command can reveal the program doing
>>> so.  e.g. netstat -tuevp
>>> 
>>> But, like others, I'd suspect it's a FTP YUM mirror being checked.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mirror mirror, on the web, who's the updatesed of all...
>>> 
>> [...]
>> The security software is stuff I wrote using libipq. I could add the
>> netstat -tuevp , but I'll wait to see if iptables catches anything.
>> 
>> BTW, I just got this:
>> 
>> [root]# rpm -q vim
>> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown
>> locker ID: 956
>> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument error: cannot
>> open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12) error:
>> cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package vim is not
>> installed
>> 
>> What should I do about it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike.
> 
> The copy and paste does odd things; I hope this looks better:
> 
> [root]# rpm -q vim
> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown
> locker ID: 956
> error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument error: cannot open
> Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12) error: cannot
> open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package vim is not installed
> 
> Mike,

It doesn't look better; it is removing my EOLs.

Mike.




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