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Re: When to reboot after aptitude safe-upgrade?



On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 22:43 -0400, Dan wrote:
> > checkrestart from the debian-goodies is handy for checking that - it
> > will give you a list of what still has old libraries open, and
> > suggestions (not always the best ones) as to how to re-open them. If
> > there are lots, or you don't know how to (or can't) restart them,
> then
> > yes it might be easier to reboot.
> >
> 
> That looks very handy. I should be possible to have the same result
> using lsof, right? for example before installing the package check
> lsof libray_from_package 

Possibly, although I've noticed that checkrestart doesn't work in a
vserver environment, whereas lsof does, so I guess it's doing something
that lsof doesn't.

Richard
(Please don't cc me BTW)



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