gnu linux update question

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 12:01 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/28/2011 09:22 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > After updating, I always run needs-restarting to see what running
> > processes are affected. I'm surprised more people don't seem to know
> > about this program.
> 
> I do daily updates via yumex.  Long ago I learned that the included 
> Update Manager was very good at finding updates but would always insist 
> that I wasn't on-line when it came to doing the update.  I'd never heard 
> of needs-restarting before, so Thanx!  BTW, having run it today, I 
> gather that no output means that you're OK?

Of course. In Unix or Linux the old adage applies: no news is good news.

poc