UNC Linux Users Group

[John W Sopko Jr <sopko AT cs.unc.edu>]

We set this in /etc/yum.conf under the [main] section to keep only 2 
kernels, it defaults to 3, we like to keep the previous kernel in case
we need to go back to it:

installonly_limit = 2

On 4/18/2013 2:41 PM, Palmer, Cristóbal wrote:
> There was mention in the 11am meeting of Qualys complaining about old 
> kernels. On RHEL 6 hosts with yum-utils, this will leave you with only the 
> newest kernel:
>
>    sudo package-cleanup --oldkernels --count=1
>
> Hat tip to D. Romani in Library Systems for that.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cristóbal Palmer
> Systems Administrator with Open Systems
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> 440 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150
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