[CentOS] Re: Up2date
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Sat Jan 26 19:50:13 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 11:41 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1/25/2008 3:02 PM Robert Spangler spake the following:
> > On Sunday 20 January 2008 13:11, Robert Spangler wrote:
> >
> >> I want to use UP2DATE to alert me to updates that are available but still
> >> use yum to make the update. Up2date alerts me and i see what is available
> >> and then update with yum. Up2date icon still shows updates are available.
> >> How can I get up2date to know that the system has been updated?
> >
> > Since no one has responded can I assume (yeah, I know) that this is not
> > possible?
> >
> >
> If you update with yum, eventually the updates icon catches up and shows the
> new status. But it isn't instantaneous. It can take a while. I'm not sure how
> often the up2date system polls.
Piqued my curiosity. "locate update" provided a lot of places to look.
"man -k up2date" gave 2 that might be a good starting point?
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
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Bill
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