diff --git a/fm-common/sources/fm_db_sync_event_suppression.py b/fm-common/sources/fm_db_sync_event_suppression.py
index 2ce7ec78..553636a1 100755
--- a/fm-common/sources/fm_db_sync_event_suppression.py
+++ b/fm-common/sources/fm_db_sync_event_suppression.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ if not os.path.isfile(EVENT_TYPES_FILE):
 
 try:
     with open(EVENT_TYPES_FILE, 'r') as stream:
-        event_types = yaml.load(stream)
+        event_types = yaml.safe_load(stream)
 except Exception as exp:
     LOG.error(exp)
     raise RuntimeError(exp)
diff --git a/pylint.rc b/pylint.rc
index 69214dd0..f3cc3fd4 100755
--- a/pylint.rc
+++ b/pylint.rc
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ extension-pkg-whitelist=lxml.etree,greenlet
 # E0604 invalid-all-object
 # E1101 no-member
 # E1102 not-callable
-# E1120 no-value-for-parameter
 # E1121 too-many-function-args
 # E1123 unexpected-keyword-arg
 # NOTE: these are suppressed until py3 support merges:
@@ -80,7 +79,7 @@ disable=C, R, fixme,
         W0102,W0106,W0107,W0201,W0212,W0221,W0223,W0231,
         W0237,W0235,W0311,W0602,W0603,W0612,W0613,W0621,W0622,
         W0703,W0707,W0719,W1401,W0143,W1505,W1514,W1618,E0604,E0611,E0702,E1136,
-        E0401,E0604,E1101,E1102,E1120,E1121,E1123
+        E0401,E0604,E1101,E1102,E1121,E1123
 
 [REPORTS]
 # Set the output format. Available formats are text, parseable, colorized, msvs
diff --git a/python-fmclient/fmclient/fmclient/common/http.py b/python-fmclient/fmclient/fmclient/common/http.py
index c8b3b4d5..2f7f54e8 100644
--- a/python-fmclient/fmclient/fmclient/common/http.py
+++ b/python-fmclient/fmclient/fmclient/common/http.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class _BaseHTTPClient(object):
               resp.request.path_url != '/versions'):
             # NOTE(flaper87): Eventually, we'll remove the check on `versions`
             # which is a bug (1491350) on the server.
-            raise exc.from_response(resp)
+            raise exc.from_response(resp)  # pylint: disable=no-value-for-parameter
 
         content_type = resp.headers.get('Content-Type')