D. D. Brierton said: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:29, William Hooper wrote: > >> D. D. Brierton said: >> >>> I think my rhnsd service is not working properly. The Alert Icon in >>> the notification area is permanently a blue tick. It only ever turns >>> into a red exclamation mark if I run up2date manually. >> >> rhnsd and rhn-applet (the "Alert Icon") have nothing to do with each >> other. > > Really?! Now I'm totally confused. How does the rhn-applet determine if > updates are available if not from rhnsd? rhn-applet is self contained. It polls the yum server(s) to see if the headers have changed. rhnsd is used to see if you have request any actions (install package, reboot, etc.) via RHN. Since you don't have a /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid from RHN all it does on Fedora is exit. If you had upgraded from a previous RH version and had the file it would generate an error. >> Since Fedora doesn't use RHN the rhnsd service doesn't do anything. >> > > Oh. In that case I guess I should switch it off. But why is it included > with Fedora if it doesn't do anything? It is part of up2date, and since the same up2date codebase is used with RHEL (which does use RHN) it is there. >> Your issue with rhn-applet might be releated to this bug: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111302 >> > > Reading through the comments in that bug report I saw that one possible > problem is that the rhn-applet's cache of the state of RPM might be a > problem. Sure enough I used Red Carpet to install one of the seven updates > available, and as soon as it was installed the blue tick changed into a > red exclamation mark. > >> Try running rhn-applet-tui manually from a terminal. >> > > To determine what? To see if the above is the issue. Generally running the text version will refresh the GUI version. -- William Hooper
