On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:39 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > If you want to check for updates, try "yum check-update" instead. > > Which takes several minutes to complete (fetch new information, and > parse local files, etc.). Yet RHN would let you know in a few seconds > that there were some updates, and would only go through the long process > of working out what, *if* you wanted to follow it up. > > I miss that aspect of RHN. > The RHN alert icon is on the panel for me by default. All it takes is a few seconds to configure it and it works to do exactly what you suggest.
