how do i know i need a reboot after a console based "upgrade"?

Tue Apr 17 17:27:12 UTC 2007

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:36 +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> on a server system,  if i do a "sudo apt-get upgrade" or "sudo
> aptitude upgrade"
> is there anyway to know i need a reboot? 

If you subscribe to the security-announce mailing list (which you should
do anyway if you run a server of even small importance), then the
announcements will tell you what to do to effect the upgrade (reboot,
restart service, etc)