>any idea why the update agent would show "no updates available" and when >lauching up2date there are a bunch of them available? thank you in >advance, cheers I think you're talking about the "RHN Notification Icon"... shows "no updates.... This will be for one of two reasons: 1 - You don't have the update applied for that program (came out a week or so back, check the archives, or run up2date -l 2 - The program has not polled for available updates yet. I think it only checks every 4 hours or something like that. Don