That seems pretty darn reasonable to me. The ansible stat module could be used to check for presense of that file at the end of the run, and reboot (and wait for SSH to come back up) if so desired.
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Maciej Delmanowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps not the "Ansible way", but you could install > 'update-notifer-common' package and see if /var/run/reboot-required file is > present - perhaps via nagios or cron + mail message. > > > http://serverfault.com/questions/92932/how-does-ubuntu-keep-track-of-the-system-restart-required-flag-in-motd > > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/update-notifier-common > > Maciej > > > 2014-08-03 0:40 GMT+02:00 Christian Schmitt <[email protected]>: > > Currently i'm running a playbook against multiple servers, is there a way >> to print something if a server needs a reboot after an apt-get upgrade? >> i mean if the kernel gets upgraded i need to know which of them needs an >> restart. >> >> is there a possible way that ansible could report such thing >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/620390e6-824b-4ac5-bbe3-783e5e7b20d4%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/620390e6-824b-4ac5-bbe3-783e5e7b20d4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEnKK1z__DrKRdCgRtGGaxVuOsnbQHtdK0J6_2V5eX2v3xRUzA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEnKK1z__DrKRdCgRtGGaxVuOsnbQHtdK0J6_2V5eX2v3xRUzA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgyqsVDKV68r1ZdNGAc1YnPcM2TYFFzqZc7fXBLJXAX%3DqA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
