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Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote:

> The man was asking for a tool to notify him whether there be any updates
> to run, on a regulary basis.

If your interpretation is correct, he should subscribe the the security
announce mailinglist, which does about the same thing.

> I think then my line above is an answer to
> his request. Anyway it is up to him if he can use the suggestion.
> I find it nice that others are doing it in the same way, like you.
>
> I think the GUI you are suggesting is provided with Mandrake update.
> It makes no sense (to me, at least) to do package maintenance for the
> system without being root.
>

Quoting the original user (not Andrey's proposed solution):

"The RedHat notification tool is a perfect example but I haven't seen
anything similar for MDrake"

That most definitely isn't a cron job running with it's output
disappearing into a mail queue the user does not even know about ...
it's a tray applet that works in GNOME and KDE, and changes colour based
on whether there are updates or not (IIRC, it's been a while since I
last installed RH to see what they have been up to).

Regards,
Buchan

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