Nullifying requirement to reboot after kernel update

[Chris]

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 14:11 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 10:04 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> >>
> >> All that you need to do is remove the symlink or symlink
> >> "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier" to "/dev/null" rather than to
> >> "/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required".
> >>
> >> Just make a note of the latter file in case you want to restore this
> >> functionality.
> >>
> > Thanks Tom, just made a 'hold' folder in the /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
> > folder and moved the symlink there.
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
I'm stumped now, another update came in that did not require a reboot
however 'software updater' said I still needed to reboot from the
previous update. Of course after the update finished the popup for 'you
need to restart your computer to finish installing updates' was there
and I again clicked 'remind me later'.

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