Up2date Sources

[Clint]

edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:
> I've changed the sources in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> to reflect a mirror instead of redhat.
> The problem is I never get a "red exclamation" when
> there is an update. I have to manually launch u2date
> before it sees any updates.
> 
> Did I miss a setting somewhere?
> Thanks,
> 
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I posted a similar request a while back, and while others said they 
experienced the same thing, I never found a solution.

The only time I notice it switch to the red exclamation mark is when a 
reboot is done or if I manually check for updates and there are some 
updates available. Since upgrading to FC1, the applet has not detected 
updates as it previously did with RH9.

I have run the update for the up2date applet as well.

I have run system updates using the yum.conf found at artoo's fedora faq.

Here's the reference from the archive:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg02556.html

Since that time, I've reconfigured my up2date sources to be the same 
mirrors I'm using with yum, but that doesn't affect anything about this 
issue.

Manually using up2date works as it should -- it's simply not detecting 
updates when they exist, as it ought to.

I've wondered if there is some "time-between-checking-for-updates" 
variable that is set for some crazy long time rather than once a day or 
every x hours, but I've not run into anything in the configuration for 
up2date.

Clint

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