Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool FC4 Subscription Alert

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:51 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:32 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > Oh.  Does FC4 yum notify users when there are updates to install, say, by
> > puting an icon in the top bar?  I'm still using FC3.  My impression was
> > that there was no working update notification mechanism.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yes, the applet does provide notification.

Not if you're using repomd sources in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, which
is the default in FC4. The applet does not handle them.

> > >> it is not
> > >> suitable for general use, and should not have been released.  It probably
> > >> was just an oversight, but it /needs/ to be fixed now!
> > >
> > >I'll second that.
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> >       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> > 

Please trim any quoted text below the last line of your reply; it serves
no purpose unless you're top-posting.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>