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.,,
