On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 22:46 +0000, BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:38:34 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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> Then you should know to run needs-restarting when it has finished to
> check for this yourself.
Maybe the OP knows, but in thirteen years of running linux
(almost all RedHat or clones) I've never heard of it. And googling found
me nothing comprehensible. Can you point me to something?
It's a secret :-) Seriously, I noticed it maybe a year or so ago and
have mentioned it several times on this and other lists, but it's still
not well-known. It certainly didn't exist 13 years ago. The earliest
reference I can see in a quick Google is early 2010 (F12).
There was once a thread here (I know I was on it, and I think Alan Cox
too) which discussed how to detect when processes needed to be
restarted. Certainly no-one knew about n-r at that time and it wasn't so
very long ago. I even started hacking something together at the time.
Possibly that gave someone the idea to write n-r, but it's hard to tell.
poc