Package: needrestart Version: 2.1-1 Severity: wishlist
Hi. I'd hope that the long term default is, that every Debian comes with needrestart / -session installed. This would mean that root and other users get notifications about stuff needed to be restarted, either when run manually, via apt, or e.g. via cron (should something like be implemented). This also means that each user should get a way to disable these notifications for him and perhaps to control how he want's to get such notifications. This could be done via a ~/.needrestart.conf . Ideas include: - allow to configure which results are shown, i.e. -only the user's own processes? - all normal user processes - root's processes - kernel - include/exclude list of uids/gids (basically the same as given in #787294). - allow the user to configure whether each notification is shown only once or again at each subsequent check This would of course require some storing of processes/etc. which can be tricky to implement (especially as other processes may reuse these PIDs). Such framework could however even allow the user to silence out these notifications per process. - allow configuration which notification method(s) is/are to be used. Right now it seems that needrestart informs using "write". This may however mangle up terminals so even root may want to disable it. needrestart-session and libnotify-bin are also in the game. Perhaps one additional method should be implemented (as a special exception to what I've said in #787294, that "this isn't needrestart's job"): notification via mail This has the advantages that it doesn't clutter up terminals like "write", it's available for console-only, and (unlike SMS, XMPP, etc.) it's available on every normal Debian. The only danger here (which one should warn people about and which is the reason why mail notification should be disabled per default): mails may leave the system (depending on the configuration) and may thus leak security relevant information. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
