On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:43, suse@rio.vg wrote: [snip]

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Currently, that leaves people with no program to warn them of new updates on their desktops, but SuSE claims it's fixing ZenWorks, so maybe that'll be OK for desktops, once it's released.

Having just caught up with this conversation, I realise that 10.0 susewatcher + YOU, which worked fine, has been removed, to be replaced by something which doesn't work in 10.1. Nice. What was wrong with susewatcher+YOU that meant it needed replacing? If it ain't broke, .....

I'm curious, too. I just tried to do an update in my system since it said I have five updates. The first message I got was, "Transaction failed: Package Transaction failed: You do not have the required access level (superuser) for this method. Then I got a message saying "You do not have permission to perform this action. You must be added to zmd as a privilaged user in order to perform this action." I thought, hey, shouldn't the system just ask for the root password? I went ahead and added myself as a Privilaged User in spite of my reservations. I really don't like this concept, since the whole point of me using Linux was that I'd run as a non-privilaged user and be prompted for a password whenever I want to do an update - YOU or otherwise. A dialog popped up asking for my passwrod for (root) privilage. The command was rug (?) Command: rug ua --replace kai view install upgrade remove subscribe refresh Rug? I'm assuming this is some Zenworks command. I did a man:rug and found it is "the command-line interface to ZENworks Linux Mangagement (ZLM) agent." Well, after running the process and watching the (GNOME) screen do stuff it errored. (I think Software Updater is written in C#.) I got the message, "Transaction failed: Package transaction failed: You do not have the required access level (superuser) for this method." Hello? Did I not put in the root password previously? Well, after a reboot (which I almost always do after installing) the icon shows no more updates necessary. So - I guess it worked? Who knows. Wierd. Can I just go back to YOU? That was a brilliant program. It did exactly what I wanted and nothing else. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part