On 2017-01-12 11:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 05:35:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > When I do a upgrade and need to know what processes or services need to > > be restarted, I use this command that someone posted about on here a > > long time ago. > > > > > > root@fireball / # equery b checkrestart > > * Searching for checkrestart ... > > app-admin/checkrestart-0.47-r3 (/usr/sbin/checkrestart) > > There's also needrestart that is a little more intelligent, can > optionally restart services for you and also works with systemd as well > as old school init systems. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > .sig a .sog of sixpence.
For OpenRC there's also restart_services[1]. I've grown to like it better over checkrestart. Typically it restarts the services that need restarting automatically, but you can define services as "critical" and need an extra flag (-c) for restarting them. For a mail server, for example, you might want to take extra care before restarting Postfix after something has updated. [1]: https://dev.gentoo.org/~mschiff/restart_services/ -- Tuomo Hartikainen
