On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx said: > > I've changed the sources in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > > to reflect a mirror instead of redhat. > > The problem is I never get a "red exclamation" when > > there is an update. I have to manually launch u2date > > before it sees any updates. > > Which version of rhn-applet are you running? > > Are your repos http? Are they yum repos? Aha! I was wondering about this as well, and it turns out that this was it. I had ftp yum repos, and changing them to http caused all the "could not contact" messages to go away. I haven't seen a red bang yet, but I have confidence it will work now. Also, up2date repo checking seems to work a lot faster now. Thanks! -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
