MandrakeOnline security updates

[redoscar]

I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on a system. Yesterday evening I signed up for the MandrakeOnline feature and scheduled the available updates for download. The web site said the file transfer was to occur around midnight.

This morning, I signed into MandrakeOnline to check the progress. It appears that nothing has happened as the schedule still exists. Can anyone shed light on this Mandrake feature?

Is the scheduled update a cron action on my system or does it take place at midnight from the Mandrake server?

After the rpms are transferred to my system, are they automatically installed as well?

And finally, if there are running processes affected, are they restarted to truly implement the updates or do I need to restart the system to finalize the actions? If I must restart manually, do I just execute the default runlevel init script (i.e. init 5 or whatever)?

Thanks for the info on this.

Red

[redoscar]

Well, either my question about the MandrakeOnline service was too difficult for the group or just too stupid since I've received no replies.

Nonetheless, I spent some time today going through the KDE Menu and ran across the update packages item. That ran the rpmdrake utility which allowed me to attached to a mirror site, see the available updates, and start the download and installation. I suspect everything indentified at MandakeOnline was installed and hopefully my system is up-to-date.

It's not as automatic as MandrakeOnline, but it gives me more of a feel about what is going on with my system.

Red

[TRN]

I've been sick and too lazy to install any distros. Right now that version of MDK isn't on one of our machines. eeks. You'll have to ask the resident MDK experts for the reasoning but it reads that all is well.

I'm off to bed.

:D

[redoscar]

Right now that version of MDK isn't on one of our machines.
I suspect you are spending your time with the newer Mandrake beta release. I was just looking for help on the MandrakeOnline feature. I never could get it to work but probably found something better (manual updates using rpmdrake).

I was able to install the 75 security and bug fix updates without incident.

Maybe you can shed some light on the following question. If a person updates a significant number of packages (including running processes like samba, openssl, etc.) what is the best way to reinitialize everything without doing a system reboot?

I did an init 2, followed by an init 5, but is there a better way?

Red

And hope you get over whatever you have and get back to your chipper self.