On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@gmail.com> wrote:

I must suggest that "nohup dnf whatever > logfile.out &" is your
friend for exactly this sort of thing. stdin/stdout/stderr are all
disconnected from the running session and a visible log is generated.

Thanks very much for taking the time to post... very simple and to the point.

Another method I've found for those concerned about using a terminal under a DE is to

check out dnf-automatic: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoUpdates

There is currently an open bug regarding the use of email notifications when using

dnf-automatic: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279773

but other than that, it appears to work fine.

For those wanting to know which processes need to be restarted after update,

there is the appropriately named dnf needs-restarting:

http://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/needs_restarting.html

As the documentation mentions:

Note that in most cases a process should survive update of its binary and libraries

it is using without requiring to be restarted for proper operation.

There are however specific cases when this does not apply.