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Even if you set all three options to Never Update, cPanel Update cron will fire. If you review the log afterward, you'll see what happens when it ran.

What sort of problem are you having with it?

 

Updates should be left enabled for most users. If you're on top of security and monitoring the server constantly, sure, disabling updates may be an option. I've got a better idea, read the emails you got while away a bit closer.

That's not a cPanel Update email, that's from your firewall, CSF/LFD alerting you to system changes it feels you need to know about.

You can disable that one alert email if you really wanted to. Search your CSF settings page for this: LF_INTEGRITY set it to =0

Bad idea, IMHO, but there you go.

You can tweak many other alerts similar. Search the settings page for the word: Alert, to find them and choose. (wisely)

You can tweak what Alerts you get from cPanel, here:
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HTH!

 

BTW, was there really a need to start a new thread on a similar topic you already had going?

 

No sir, you've already got another one going on a similar topic.

Disabling updates might leave you vulnerable if you're away for an extended period of time. Tweaking the system and its alerts to fit your needs is important to understand. That will take time, education (reading and understanding those email is a good start) and effort though.

Disabling updates does not solve your issue with too many emails, it just puts things off for another day. You want your system contacting you about things. IMHO, the more the merrier. Those alerts are my eyes and ears on my servers.

If you're getting too many emails on an account you'd rather not, change the destination to another email address you crerated to send them there. That way its less annoying for you and you can check them when you have time. But you still need to check them, you should still want them all the same.

As for the MD5 alert emails, the subject of both your threads, CSF/LFD is alerting you to file system changes. CSF is doing its job, as configured in your settings mentioned earlier. From the CSF configuration page for LF_INTEGRITY:

Read that closely, its important.

To give you an example, force a cPanel update via WHM. Assuming more files are changed, you'll get an email soon after about the changes in the form of one of those alerts. You know you just forced an update, so could assume here that the changes are expected, safe. Restarting CSF/LFD is suggested at this point, you know why you got the email, the system was updated.

To quote the same thing as above, a second time:

 

You could use a command such as:

Code:

tail -500 /var/log/yum.log

This will display the last 500 lines of yum.log on your system.

Thank you.