Re: difference between output of "yum ps" and "needs-restarting"?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.03.2013 16:16, schrieb Georg Wittig:
>  OP here.
>  
>  Additionally, I just discovered strange behavior of the needs-restarting command,
>  
>  1. After a "yum update" it usually reads lots of data from the net before
> outputting anything. I don't have any
>  idea what it's reading, and from where and where it stores that data. Why isn't
> the info enough that "yum update" has?
>  
>  2. Sometimes (in the sense of non-deterministically) needs-restarting reports processes I
> don't expect.
>  Occasionally it even reports 10 to 20 processes immediately after rebooting (i.e.
> immediately after login and su)!
>  At other times it reports a couple of processes that it didn't report before (no
> explicit or implicit "yum update"
>  in the meantime), and a couple of minutes later it doesn't report them any longer.
>  
>  Just wondering... 
i never see this output anything............