up2date

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Jun 21, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> Here's an interesting note:  If I don't have a X-Windows Server running
> locally (ReflectionX, etc), then up2date doesn't work even though I 
> want
> to use it in command-line mode...
>
> Shouldn't it just function as expected without trying to establish an X
> connection?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:46 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: up2date
>
>
> Recently, I've been trying to run up2date remotely via a shell. 
> Whenever
> I run up2date with or without and parameters, it just drops me back to
> the shell.  I can't figure out why its not working the way its supposed
> to.  I did modify the config file for up2date to remove packages from
> the skipList.  It was working previously, as I only noticed this 
> problem
> recently...has anyone else seen this before?
>
> -----
> Ryan Golhar
> Computational Biologist
> The Informatics Institute at
> The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

up2date defaults to being an X11 app unless you use --nox (obligatory 
'man up2date' suggestion) .  If you've got the bandwidth to use X, try 
'ssh -XC user at remotehost up2date'.

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle