Re: RHN subscription

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/01/05

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    Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:40:59 -0500
    
    

    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.

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