On Thursday 20 January 2005 21:36, Miark wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:12 +0000, Derek wrote: > > On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: > > > I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed > > > a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of > > > mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that > > > would be doing that. What's going on? > > > > > > Miark > > > > Do you have the Mandrake Update applet running? > > It checks for availability of new updates. > > Not that I... well hell, that's what that orange icon > in the system tray is for. I guess I was! Okay, mystery > solved. Thanks! > > Miark
Create an account at MandrakeOnline.net (1st machine free, pay for additional computers) and apply the outstanding updates and the icon turns into a Green 'Tick'. The only problem I have with MandrakeOnline is that the applet turns Red before the updates have actually hit the mirrors. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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