On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:43:50PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
mac for my wife, Apple did something right. They have something (possibly a cron job) that looks for updates at a user specified interval, and if nothing is found, it does nothing. You don't even know it checked. If it does find something, it pops up a dialog. None of this flashing red bubble nonsense. The whole time you're blissfully unaware of this going on, which is a big win memory footprint wise.
That didn't go down well in some places. One of the problems with automatic updates and any network tool that is impolite is when your box does a major update over your GPRS phone at Â3.50 per megabyte, or clogs a customer wireless network when you are in a sales call.
notifier is becoming more sensible than ours. They even have a 'download the updates in the background when things are idle' option aparently, which sounds cute. (think I'd rather be around when it applies them though).
We do too. It's just not well documented. chkconfig service yum on for the runlevels you want.,,