5 thoughts on - Yum Files In /tmp

• Probably yum-cron – the default setup for that runs yum through cron hourly and daily.

  P.

• Ok so I looked for yum in cron and did not find it.

  cd /etc
  # grep yum cron*

  grep: cron.d: Is a directory grep: cron.daily: Is a directory grep: cron.hourly: Is a directory grep: cron.monthly: Is a directory grep: cron.weekly: Is a directory

  # grep yum cron*/*

  and the files:
  ls -lR cron.*
  -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 5 Jan 25 2016 cron.allow
  -rw——- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 11:33 cron.deny

  cron.d:
  total 16
  -rw-r–r– 1 root root 128 Aug 3 11:33 0hourly
  -rw-r–r– 1 root root 108 Jun 13 10:08 raid-check
  -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 459 Jun 24 2015 sa-update
  -rw——- 1 root root 235 Aug 3 05:30 sysstat

  cron.daily:
  total 12
  -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2239 Jun 9 2014 certwatch
  -rwx—— 1 root root 219 Aug 1 21:12 logrotate
  -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 618 Mar 17 2014 man-db.cron

  cron.hourly:
  total 4
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 392 Aug 3 11:33 0anacron

  cron.monthly:
  total 0

  cron.weekly:
  total 0

  Thoughts? Thanks,

  Jerry

• Remember that it could be in the original crontabs located in
  /var/spool/cron

• You might also look in /var/log/cron to see what’s firing off hourly.

• Even though PackageKit was not running – I went ahead and removed that package and it has stopped.

  Thanks,

  Jerry