[CentOS] Re: Up2date

Sat Jan 26 19:50:13 UTC 2008
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

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