Re: follow-up: update, reboot required?

2022-04-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sat, Apr 23 2022 at 01:11:49 PM, Lee wrote: > On 3/19/22, Lee wrote: >> 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

follow-up: update, reboot required?

2022-04-23 Thread Lee
On 3/19/22, Lee wrote: > 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

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:31:04 -0700 Peter Ehlert wrote: > I now have both needrestart and needrestart-session installed. > > Question: do either run in the background? Apt calls needrestart, so it isn't necessary to run it in the background. Unattended upgrades will inform you of which

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Lee
On 3/19/22, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 3/19/22 06:32, piorunz wrote: >> On 19/03/2022 10:02, songbird wrote: >> >>>there is also package debian-goodies which has the >>> command checkrestart. i'm not sure which is better. >>> >> >> All I know is that needrestart works for me, it correctly

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Lee
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

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 10:15:27 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: Hello Cindy, >admin emails sent to them as a potential remedy. It's on my to-do to >play around with those emails to see if that catches those upgrade >messages.. What they include is advisory notices that get thrown up (when using

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:04:59AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > > > Reboots are needed if you

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:35 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new > microcode, or a new version of the

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 3/19/22 06:32, piorunz wrote: On 19/03/2022 10:02, songbird wrote:    there is also package debian-goodies which has the command checkrestart.  i'm not sure which is better.    songbird All I know is that needrestart works for me, it correctly prompts for computer reboot after kernel

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/19/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:55:03AM +0100, Toni Mas Soler wrote: >> I restart Dbus from time to time. Actually, I stop Dbus if i don't >> need, that is when I do not use X (almost allways). >> Do you mean my action is not effective? > > The fact that you're

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread piorunz
On 19/03/2022 10:02, songbird wrote: there is also package debian-goodies which has the command checkrestart. i'm not sure which is better. songbird All I know is that needrestart works for me, it correctly prompts for computer reboot after kernel upgrade; and offers to restart

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:55:03AM +0100, Toni Mas Soler wrote: > I restart Dbus from time to time. Actually, I stop Dbus if i don't > need, that is when I do not use X (almost allways). > Do you mean my action is not effective? The fact that you're "almost always" not using X is probably

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread songbird
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

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 19 mars 2022, 12:16 de edua...@kalinowski.com.br: > The needrestart package will offer to restart services affected when there'a > a library update, and it also warns you when the kernel has been udpated (and > a reboot is necessary). It just doesn't warn you about microcode updates, >

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 18/03/2022 23:47, Lee wrote: So it would be nice if there was some program that would just say that I needed to reboot The needrestart package will offer to restart services affected when there'a a library update, and it also warns you when the kernel has been udpated (and a reboot is

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Toni Mas Soler
I restart Dbus from time to time. Actually, I stop Dbus if i don't need, that is when I do not use X (almost allways). Do you mean my action is not effective? Toni Mas Missatge de piorunz del dia ds., 19 de març 2022 a les 5:55: > > On 19/03/2022 02:32, Lee wrote: > > How to tell if I need to

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread piorunz
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.

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread David Christensen
On 3/18/22 19:47, Lee wrote: On 3/18/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new microcode, or a new version of the

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread Lee
On 3/18/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? > > Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new > microcode, or a new version of the dbus package (because

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:32:49PM -0400, Lee wrote: > How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? Reboots are needed if you got a new kernel, or new firmware, or new microcode, or a new version of the dbus package (because dbus cannot be restarted).

update, reboot required?

2022-03-18 Thread Lee
How to tell if I need to reboot the machine after updating the software? If it makes a difference, 99.99% of the time I'm using Synaptic Package Manager to do the updates and I've never seen any kind of notice that a reboot is needed to start using the newly installed software. Thanks Lee