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 the debian-goodies package. > > Features: > - supports (but does not require) systemd > - binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers) > - tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons > (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby) > - tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC) > - tries to detect pending kernel upgrades > - tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs > - could be used as nagios check_command > - fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks
there is also package debian-goodies which has the command checkrestart. i'm not sure which is better. songbird
