[rhn-users] RHN Alert Notification

[Bret McMillan]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:59:21PM +1000, Steve Elliott wrote:
> RHN Alert Notification Tool does not report the updates that I have
> scheduled.
> 
> rhn_check -v does report the scheduled update.
> 
> Whats going on?

rhn_check obtains and runs any scheduled actions from the website
(https://rhn.redhat.com).

The applet merely compares what you have installed (equivalent of rpm
-qa) with the latest packages available for your base os, and notes if
there are out-of-date packages installed.

--Bret