Red Hat Network Alert Icon not alerting me of updates

[D. D. Brierton]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:26, William Hooper wrote:
> rhn-applet is self contained.  It polls the yum server(s) to see if
> the headers have changed.  rhnsd is used to see if you have request
> any actions (install package, reboot, etc.) via RHN.  Since you don't
> have a /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid from RHN all it does on Fedora is
> exit.  If you had upgraded from a previous RH version and had the file
> it would generate an error.

Thanks for the clarification.

> It is part of up2date, and since the same up2date codebase is used
> with RHEL (which does use RHN) it is there.

Okay. That makes sense.

> >> Your issue with rhn-applet might be releated to this bug:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111302

I've added a comment to the above bug report. It's reassuring to know
that it's a known issue.

Thanks.

Best, Darren

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