On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:11 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > The "blinking icon" works just fine. There's no reason to uninstall > > it. You'll probably never catch it blinking if you have the yum > > nightly update service enabled, but it does accurately detect when you > > need to install patches. > > No, in FC4 it doesn't. up2date works fine (except with livna), yum works > fine, but the RHN applet apparently doesn't read the current format for > repository metadata, so it won't detect when updates are needed. And > there doesn't seem to be a way of preventing it from starting on login > short of removing the RPM. FWIW, it doesn't work properly in FC3 either... up2date quit working reliably several months ago, so I began using 'yum update'. The 'blinking icon' stopped working properly about the same time. It mostly stays blue (meaning no updates available/needed) now, although it will turn red occasionally *during* the 'yum update' process. Jay
