what's running check4updates?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue Dec 19 12:27:34 UTC 2006


On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:14:47PM +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> 
> >Your true bug is probably
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213963
> 
> OK, thanks for the explanation. These are indeed the issues I have
> been having: yum or rpm dying with alarming regularity since I
> installed FC6.
> 
> Sorry for dissing your package. The yum/rpm problems were driving me
> crazy and made me a bit irrational. ;)

OK, I've just become alergic to FUD, because it self-multiplies ;)

> I will reinstall atrpms but temporarily disable the
> /etc/0check4updates script until this stuff is resolved.

There is no need to reinstall this package, really. It serves to mail
you with information about whether your system needs updates. It's
good for a server, but for a desktop system you have other means
(applets) that do that better.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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