Re: Proper use of checkrestart

2023-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 5:38 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 > AM. It also reboots the machine as required. > > I noticed Debian has checkrestart. The man page is at > https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debian-go

Re: Proper use of checkrestart

2023-04-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 05:38:05 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 > AM. It also reboots the machine as required. You might look at the unattended-upgrades package, which does exactly this. (Except for the 4:00 AM, but you can adjust th

Proper use of checkrestart

2023-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 AM. It also reboots the machine as required. I noticed Debian has checkrestart. The man page is at https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debian-goodies/checkrestart.8.en.html. I want to ensure I understand "

re: checkrestart results

2013-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I do for perl when I remember is to run cpanp and do a s selfupdate all command inside of cpanp. That may help Arnold's perl problem I hope. --- jude Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need scree

re: checkrestart results

2013-04-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
That's interesting since I have perl on this system checkrestart didn't mention it. What checkrestart did mention was: These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: postgresql-9.1: 2578/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/postgres 2582

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 18/11/2011 1:41 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: They are back, after the reboot, but not right away... looks like I'll have to report a bug. Now, how to tell which "old files" are the problem How is your python scripting? The checkrestart script is

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > They are back, after the reboot, but not right away... looks like > I'll have to report a bug. Now, how to tell which "old files" are > the problem How is your python scripting? The checkrestart script is simply a python script. If you

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
rsisted. So ... I've done a full reboot now. I still expect to see the problem later today, let's see ;-) # uptime 01:40:15 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.97, 0.22, 0.07 # checkrestart Found 0 processes using old versions of upgraded files ... # checkrestart Found 3 processes

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 16/11/2011 10:27 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I believe these are the worker processes spawned by the main dovecot server, one for each connection a user makes. They only go away when the user disconnects, even if the main server is restarted, in order not to forcedly disconnect users.

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 15 Nov 2011, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: # checkrestart Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packages) These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: dovecot-imapd: 18981

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-15 Thread Bob Proulx
and restarted dovecot. New processes *later* > come up as flagged by checkrestart as using old versions of upgraded > files. So, something is still getting old files somehow. with no > further system changes whatsoever Hmm...Stop the service. Double check that the above listed P

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/11/2011 7:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: # checkrestart Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packages) These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: dovecot-imapd: 18981

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > # checkrestart > Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files > (1 distinct program) > (1 distinct packages) > These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to > restart them: > dovecot-imapd: > 18981

checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I've got the following: # checkrestart Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packages) These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: dovecot-imapd: 18981 /usr/lib/dovecot/imap 14795

Re: checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Steven Ayre wrote: > Great, thanks! Perhaps checkrestart could be updated to check that file too? Please file a wishlist bug. It will depend on whether the maintainer thinks it is something the tool should warn you about or not. checkrestart is commonly used to *av

Re: checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Ayre
Great, thanks! Perhaps checkrestart could be updated to check that file too? -Steve On 2 March 2011 17:11, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: >> I just upgraded the linux kernel package on a Lenny server and then >> ran checkresta

Re: checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 04:08:15PM +, 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 > anythi

checkrestart + out-of-date kernel

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Ayre
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.

Re: checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
ip] >>>> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The >>>> checkrestart command from "debian-goodies" is supposed to do the same >>>> thing more comfortably, but this does not work for me at the moment (see >>>>

Re: checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:20:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : > [snip] > >> > >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files.

checkrestart (was Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/18/08 11:50, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > The Friday 18 July 2008 18:07:41 Florian Kulzer, you wrote : [snip] >> >> as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The >> checkrestart command from &q

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
3,3 >>> 2070470 /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0.1 (path inode=2070469) >>> >>> I suggest that that is a more reliable method of getting the >>> information you require. >> This command returns nothing. The point is that I get these >> checkrestart me

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
t; > > > I suggest that that is a more reliable method of getting the > > information you require. > > This command returns nothing. The point is that I get these > checkrestart messages even after a reboot, when actually no process > could run 'old versi

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
;path inode' > gnome-cup 4794 otoolel mem REG3,3 > 2070470 /usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0.1 (path inode=2070469) > > I suggest that that is a more reliable method of getting the > information you require. This command returns nothing. The point is that I

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:34:53 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > After some security updates on etch, checkrestart complains about > processes that should be restarted. However, these particular pa

checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After some security updates on etch, checkrestart complains about processes that should be restarted. However, these particular packages haven't been upgraded at all. Even a reboot doesn't make those go away. Something wrong? Johann