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jrg
Asked: 2011-12-04 12:38:05 +0800 CST

What is the <number>! in byobu's status bar mean?

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I run byobu on my home server, and I noticed this today - what is it?

It's part of the byobu notification/status bar, on a 64-bit 11.10 server.

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    From man pages:

    updates_available - the number of updates available on the system; displayed in the lower bar toward the right in white text on a red background with a trailing '!' sign; if any updates are marked 'security updates', then there will be a total of two trailing exclamation points, '!!'

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  2. This shows the number of packages that need to be updated on the system.

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