On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:46:08PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > 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).
Humm... but now how do you decide who ends up with that tray applet running? I favored the cron solution because it is the most likely to be useful across a wide variety of systems and applications. However, I do see the benefit of doing it with a tray applet. And I do understand the issues with cron jobs piling up undelivered mail... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you." -- Nietzsche