Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:11:04 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > Is there a good way to do what I want (which is to avoid missing an
> > automatic upgrade and then not rebooting for months)?
>
> If you are using the unattended-upgrades package, you can set it to
> send you emails. Those emails will let you know which packages are
> upgraded, and if a reboot is required. See
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.
>
> Aside from your use case, I highly recommend doing so if your hard
> drive is encrypted.
I don't use that but I do something similar. Does unattended-upgrades
email me each day until I reboot? If so then I should take a look at
switching to use it. (I've been doing it 'my way' since potato - so
change is hard ;-) )

Tim.