Wow! You have no idea how many pages / responses to this question there are out there that say there is no way to find what services need to be restarted under Ubuntu, you just leave it be or reboot. I thought it used to be part of rpm, maybe they split it out, or maybe I am just not remembering correctly since it has been years.
Thank you! On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:17 PM Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > Paul, > > Yes, there is a useful utility in RHEL distros called 'needs-restarting' > that is in the 'yum-utils' package. The analog in Ubuntu is to look in > the /var/run directory and look for things named 'reboot-required,' > specifically the file 'reboot-required.pkgs'. I even wrote a Nagios > test to look for /var/run/reboot-required. > > Howard > > On 8/24/22 15:14, Paul Boniol wrote: > > As previously noted, I've got some issues with my current Linux desktop > > / home media server. I had been going with a Ubuntu based distro because > > I used to use MythTV, and there used to be Mythbuntu that had it largely > > ready to go. (FYI once you had MythTV working, there were many posts > > telling of woes if you ever upgraded.) > > > > Now that I'm looking at doing a fresh install, and no longer use MythTV, > > I don't think there is any influence to remain with a Ubuntu based > distro. > > H > > I've been thinking about going back to an RPM based distro might be > > nice, because apt can't tell you what processes need to be restarted > > after a lib update. Though I do appreciate the Ubuntu LTS system where > > I'm not forced to upgrade every couple of years to continue getting > > updates. (And have no experience with rolling upgrade systems, e.g. > > Tumbleweed from openSUSE which was new before I got into MythTV.) > > > > Anyone care to share their thoughts on the current distro landscape? > > > > Paul > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS0dAHZf8eNBFSqDKPSitDnFrGb%3DjZhtonmtNd-3FoS_Eg%40mail.gmail.com > > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS0dAHZf8eNBFSqDKPSitDnFrGb%3DjZhtonmtNd-3FoS_Eg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/5103d4d0-12b3-5f18-1b0d-591167e08a64%40vcch.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS3%2BWiaWeYeFUhQ-Yvv1LHCBT4WmgS6n5X3qXfVb7whNaw%40mail.gmail.com.
