Re: update, reboot required?
On 3/19/22, 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.
Yes! Thank you!!
It seems to me that "checks which daemons need to be restarted
(needrestart)" won't catch as much as "check which processes need to
be restarted (checkrestart)" so I'll try both but I'm probably going
with checkrestart
Thanks again
Lee
>
> 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
>
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> With kindest regards, Piotr.
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