Great, thanks! Perhaps checkrestart could be updated to check that file too?
-Steve On 2 March 2011 17:11, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +0000, Steven Ayre wrote: >> I just upgraded the linux kernel package on a Lenny server and then >> ran checkrestart. It reported a few services that needed restarting >> because the openssl package had also been updated, but it didn't say >> anything about the fact that I was running an earlier kernel than the >> one installed. >> >> Are there any scripts that can detect that a reboot is needed for a >> kernel update? (Or perhaps a reboot wasn't needed in this case?) > > I believe that current kernel packages (I'm running sid, so I don't know > if this has made it through to Lenny or not) touch a file > '/var/run/reboot-required'. Various utilities (byobu, update-notifier and > so on) monitor or the presence of this file and, if it exists, display a > notification to the user. > > It should be a simple enough task to execute [ -f > /var/run/reboot-required ] in some sort of script. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJNbno0AAoJEKB7YbRsd8TG5T4P+wTJv6by9x4F9QIpjDSnbgcl > d1zW97eeKzOsMH3yDM+/fKOA5yTESMTFR2N0YGspR9g6ucV0KR6N+3ocK/rOWL5W > KmcgBbM5sRy+fj4gvANISt7uPu3O9qf79wzaYKl8c4vbxbT6mvZ72zyEWNvEVvgh > MGH7J4OJnYINncn+KCMTxZM2l762mMbp3T8MIf+SL+2jwWSOKWOw7N7XG8OFrgIt > e8hCe6/C6USp0YinVtu9urWyX4G/aXNjkvzmGWWaGL/QlJ2PVZp2nOu/0btXKCj5 > RO5sYPTermga1eGFs8XvhGhVwgHbd5jgIBGuRcKjKANzprfU3tmkVEltZOv+Io+k > Py35C7f5JJatVxUYKblLDk47GdS7tgLrAyq4z7yYwM1gBpciKyCWH3WDLuNhdfyV > U1+GbrVrimjxJAwQIt8GdXJOjbXe+nUC5KgqMhYn205YDdezMRaUesVgy8CeFUnd > AKA7PTJsYW+/f1+Rltg7rBJeDedeqtYZF0ZBc4mowqJff5dMapWLWe8hmcZQI9Nu > IsCJjkP1kbpJiSO3i/GYvUKJJUtF1zmiGoAUVWSADAhgUUatwmZ8iliPdZ9flgF4 > gE/iejGnlb59GhUxRRmz7+jiMgn5Bz7/PHlZbjg/6/0YCTSAOHa4zxQJ2PGdfe8r > WD/m4HZwFraMDcep3gv1 > =fD9/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=POQDovSfs+C-6Lq=ei_pqm_z-8udo78g5p...@mail.gmail.com
