No X version of notify-reboot-required

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 20:21:34 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Kenyon Ralph <kenyon at kenyonralph.com> wrote:
> On 2010-01-15T09:16:13-0500, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can we make a 'notify-reboot-required' lite for systems without X?
> Are you aware of checkrestart from the debian-goodies package? It's even
> better than a simple "reboot needed: yes or no?", because it tells you
> which processes are using old versions of files and lists their init.d
> scripts so you can restart them. Only for upgrades of certain major
> packages do you really need to reboot (e.g., kernel, libc, binutils),
> and you'll be able to tell with checkrestart because there will be a lot
> of listed processes.

No, I've never seen that one before - I'll have to look at it. Thanks!

Brian




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