Having problems with plesk auto updater

[Juan ManuelT]

Ok, a bit of background:

Machine was a plesk 11, ubuntu 10.04 installed from the official iso back when plesk 11 was released, kept up to date.

-Few months ago, I noticed plesk was auto-updating itself a lot, although I had it set up so it warned me and didnt install updates itself. I switched the configuration a bit, hoping it would overwrite whatever was wrong. Left it so it would only warn me and using the "late adopter release", and it seemed to stop.

-Las thursday I got a mail from the plesk panel, suddently plesk not only updated, but upgraded itself to plesk 11.5. Thankfully the damage was minimal, but this could have been a huge problem, specially if someday it decides to upgrade php or something like that. So 2 questions

1) Anyone else with the same issue, or any recommendation about how to stop it?

2) What ports could I block so Plesk is physically unable of updating for the time being?

Thanks in advance

 

[Juan ManuelT]

Noone? At least a safe way to block the autoupdater? So far I've tricked the DNS resolve of autoinstall.plesk.com, but I'm not sure that'll do the trick.

 

[IgorG]

If you enableв option "Notify me about available updates but do not automatically install them. Critical security updates will still be installed automatically." and updates still installs automatically - this abnormal behavior and should be investigated.

You can block autoinstall.plesk.com in /etc/hosts or block port 8447 if you need it.

 

[Juan ManuelT]

Thanks IgorG, I'll block the port too then. We'll look into it more thoroughly too, see what's up. I'm pretty sure it's not a cron configured manually or anything like that, so it's quite weird.

I'll post again when I have more info, I wanted to make sure it wouldn't update again just to be safe, specially during christmass. (I must say the upgrade was surprisingly painless for a server with so many sites tho, hehe)

Thanks again.