Re: up2date ignores --nox when DISPLAY var is set

"Barry K. Nathan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:08:57PM +0200, Ryan Sweet wrote:
> If the DISPLAY var is set (as is the case if someone uses ssh from an X11 
> terminal to login) an up2date is run with the --nox switch from the 
> command line, up2date ignores the --nox switch.

AFAIK the guilty party is consolehelper not up2date. (Try "ls -l
/usr/bin/up2date" to see what I mean. Run "/usr/sbin/up2date" to work
around this problem.)

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>


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