[Leaplist] Oddball occurence ....

[Phil Barnett]

On Saturday 23 August 2008 08:22:02 am William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> .... I got a message in my morning logwatch mail that said yum had
> updated a bunch of packages on 1 of my machines. Problem is, that
> machine doesn't have internet access (except when I connect my DSL
> modem, which is disconnected by default). Furthermore, I found no
> references to any yum activity in my /var/log/messages file :-). The box
> in question is a S939 Opteron 165 running FC6, 64-bit:
>
> [root at Opty165A:/etc, Sat Aug 23, 07:02 AM] 1027 # uname -a
> Linux Opty165A 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:39:22 EDT 2006
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at Opty165A:/etc, Sat Aug 23, 07:14 AM] 1028 #
>
> I attach the entire logwatch file. The machine in question is on my
> private LAN, yumupdatesd is chkconfig'ed off & none of the other boxen
> are running FC6 (which is also no longer supported by RH, or even
> carried, at least by my ISP who is an official RH mirror), all newer (or
> SGI IRIX). Anyone got a clue for me what's goin' on here :-) ??? TIA ....

If any file was downloaded in the past and sitting there uninstalled, the 
discover part of the updater might have told you about it.

Maybe.

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