Hi, On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:49:18AM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > in the past Debian Distributions there were two files in the system, when a > reboot was necessary: > /run/reboot-required /run/reboot-required.pkgs
These files are created by the postinst script of individual Debian packages. See for example the output of: $ grep reboot-required /var/lib/dpkg/info/* > I installed today a new kernel under Debian Bookworm, which > requires a reboot, but this system lacks of both files. They > aren't present. None of my kernel-related packages have a postinst that creates these files, so I'm not sure that installing a kernel package has ever done that. I think if you install the unattended-upgrades package it will create those files after a kernel upgrade. I do not use that, which is why I see nothing cresting those files. Perhaps you have that installed elsewhere but not on this machine. > How can I find out, if there is a system reboot necessary, in a > similar way, as it was possible in the past? Are you thinking of update-notifier-common which used to be installed by default but was removed entirely in Debian jessie? An approximate replacement for this is the package "reboot-notifier". On the same theme there is also "needrestart" which will tell you which daemons need to be restarted after libraries have been upgraded. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
