On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 01:57:11 -0800, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Aside from the minor details that needrestart is written on Perl and well > documented, I couldn't agree with you more ;-) > OOPS, my bad. I was really thinking of checkrestart. But I just downloaded the source for version 2.10. The documentation I found is a man page with a one-line description. The rest of the man page is a USAGE section, which is a man page in the strict sense: something that reminds you of the usage details if you already have the big picture. The description doesn't provide a clear view: what are "daemons"? I assume it means "long running processes". Does it check all processes? Does it look for something in /etc/rc.d (or wherever Debian puts its init scripts)? What if I have a service unrelated to /etc/init.d? (I do: clockspeed, for example) What if I have user services? (I do, and I don't pollute init.d (or /etc/runlevels/*) with services that are not system services) Of course, this kind of documentation is usual, and I'ḿ not saying it is much worse than most... As I said in a previous mail, I tried checkrestart and it didn't work for me. I didn't try needrestart (I would if I had a clear idea of what to expect) Cheers Jorge
