Package: needrestart
Version: 2.9-1~bpo8+1
Severity: wishlist
It is unclear to me whether installing this package alongside a
properly configured "unattended-upgrade" package will do the right
thing (that is, automatically restart services).
I am unsure because the default config (needrestart.conf) has the
following entry, which I assume to be the default:
# Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
#$nrconf{restart} = 'i';
It *looks* like things work, because on the server where I have both
setup, running needrestart by hand tells me everything is fine. Is it
that "a" is the default, or that needrestart can tell there's no
terminal, or what?
It would be great if this is documented better (i looked, without
luck, in the manpage and readme files).
Thanks!
-- Package-specific info:
needrestart output:
Your outdated processes:
chromium[13772]
checkrestart output:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
ii dpkg 1.17.27
ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2
ii libintl-perl 1.23-1+deb8u1
ii libmodule-find-perl 0.12-1
ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.16-1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.51-1
ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.32-1+b1
ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
needrestart recommends no packages.
Versions of packages needrestart suggests:
ii libnotify-bin 0.7.6-2
-- no debconf information
