Hey,
I've moved my pyupdatesd script to GitHub: https://github.com/kirsle/bin/blob/master/pyupdatesd - so, git pull requests are welcome if anyone has any tweaks they'd like for this script.
I've added a few features to it, in the form of command-line options:
* You can set/override the $DISPLAY for X11 by using the --display option (useful if you launch the script from an environment where $DISPLAY isn't set). * Debug mode with --debug will make the script print things verbosely (including the exit status code and output from `yum check-update`) * Testing mode with --testing will force the script to disregard the output from `yum check-update` and pretend that it returned with code 100 (indicating updates are available), so the script will show the icon and notification pop-up.
I've also made the script schedule its first update check for "now" on startup, so you don't have to wait 15 minutes to get the first notification to appear.