Re: update, reboot required?

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

piorunz wrote:
> On 19/03/2022 02:32, Lee wrote:
>> How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software?
>
> install "needrestart" package.
>
> Description: needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after
> library upgrades.
>   It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
>
>   Features:
>    - supports (but does not require) systemd
>    - binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers)
>    - tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons
>      (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby)
>    - tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC)
>    - tries to detect pending kernel upgrades
>    - tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs
>    - could be used as nagios check_command
>    - fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks


  there is also package debian-goodies which has the
command checkrestart.  i'm not sure which is better.


  songbird