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Disable Updates
How do I go about disabling updates? I'm comfortable with they system running exactly as is and have it safely confined to my local home network where security will not be an issue. Every single tim...
I too would like to disable updates please.
Why?
Every time I have let ReadyNAS do an update it wipes out the modifications I've had to make to get the fan spinning fast enough to keep the 6 hard drives cool (before modification we lost two 3TB drives over a couple of months, looked stongly like failed due to overheat - when pulled from box were almost too hot to handle! Without modding fan would only spin around 900rpm and drives were often reporting over 49 degress C, with the fanspeed mod the fan varies based on hard drive temp and hovers around 1800rpm and drives sit around 35 degress C ).
Or it changes how the underlying system works so the fanspeed mod no longer functions and so it needs modifying again (of course if Netgear software also monitored hard drive temps and adjusted fans accordingly I wouldn't have any need to do this).
None of the public type interfaces are turned on with this box (only the management interface) and it is behind a corporate firewall so security is not an issue.
I also can not have the risk of an update doing bad things to box (as previous poster mentioned), it is the primary backup repository for around 15 servers and needs to be up 24/7. It functions well now and l'd like to leave it in this stable state.
The web browser compatability reason for updates strikes me as a red herring, I'm sure I could find a browser to still talk to it if need be.
So Netgear, how about giving us ability to turn OFF these updates? I would go through the grief of an update to get this 'turn off' ability.
Failing that, does anyone know what may need changing in the underlying linux system to stop it searching for updates?
Regards, Bryce.
BryceS wrote:
I too would like to disable updates please.
Of course you can set up the NAS to only apply the updates when you explicitly tell it too. So this is really only about not seeing the prompt that an update is available.
A home user (and perhaps some business users) can block update
If you don't need internet access, you can also deliberately assign a static address w/o a DNS server. You'd need to use IP addresses for NTP (which you should try first, just to make sure it functions ok).
I think that users should install updates (perhaps after a delay in order to make sure they are stable). The Synolocker attack that hit Synology users last year used a vulnerability that Synology had fixed several months before. Users who kept up with updates were not affected. So there is value in keeping up.
But I also see the value in being able to disable the pop-up, since it is quite easy to install the update accidentally from the pop-up. Users do need to be in control.
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