Red Hat Network Alert Icon not alerting me of updates

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Wed Jul 21 11:58:07 UTC 2004


I think my rhnsd service is not working properly. The Alert Icon in the
notification area is permanently a blue tick. It only ever turns into a
red exclamation mark if I run up2date manually.

# chkconfig --list rhnsd
rhnsd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

The service command doesn't let me know of the status of rhnsd:

# service rhnsd status
#

but maybe not all services return something for "status".

I know that updates are available for my machine, but I have
deliberately not installed them because I wanted to see if the Alert
Icon would finally turn into a red exclamation mark. These updates:

# rug lu
 
 
Updates for channel 'Fedora Core 2 updates'
Urg | Name         | Current Version | Update Version
----+--------------+-----------------+---------------
sug | gaim         | 1:0.79-0.FC2    | 1:0.80-1.FC2
sug | httpd        | 2.0.49-4        | 2.0.50-2.1
sug | httpd-devel  | 2.0.49-4        | 2.0.50-2.1
sug | httpd-manual | 2.0.49-4        | 2.0.50-2.1
sug | info         | 4.6-3           | 4.7-4
sug | mod_ssl      | 1:2.0.49-4      | 1:2.0.50-2.1
sug | texinfo      | 4.6-3           | 4.7-4
 
have been available to both rug/red-carpet and yum for a couple of days
now. I know that there is some lag between mirrors, but surely not that
much? rhnsd is supposed to check every four hours. Mirrors are supposed
to sync each day.

How can I determine what rhnsd is doing, or whether it is doing anything
at all?

Best, Darren

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