Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:46:20PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Maybe the linux-image packages could install a cron.daily script
> that compared the currently installed version to /proc/version and
> sent an e-mail to root in case there's a mismatch, which most likely
> means that a new kernel exists, but the machine has not been
> rebooted. Extra bonus for making this debconf configurable. ;)

Any reason this couldn't be fully implemented externally to linux-2.6?
The parsing code should be static enough to live outside, I would
think.

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dann frazier