Nullifying requirement to reboot after kernel update

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Wed Apr 15 08:15:42 UTC 2015


hi,
Am Montag, den 13.04.2015, 10:04 -0400 schrieb Tom H:

> 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".

you should never ever link a binary/script/app to /dev/null, the process
calling it might await a response which you will never get
from /dev/null, so it could hang forever ...

link to /bin/true instead, that will always return a proper exit code to
the calling process ...

ciao
	oli





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