For best results, throw needs-restarting in a file called
zzz-needs-restarting in /etc/cron.daily/

This will make sure it runs last in the daily crons and you'll get an
email if there is any output.

On 20/02/2016 11:10 PM, Barbara Krasovec wrote:
> You can use:
> needs-restarting(package yum-utils)
> or
> yum ps(package yum-plugin-ps)
> 
> Both will tell you, which services need to be restarted.
> 
> Cheers,
> Barbara
> 
> 
> On 20/02/16 12:46, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> I think they both do about same things and almost in the same way. I
>> was not aware that needs-restarting utility is nowdays available anymore.
>>
>> --
>> Eero
>>
>> 2016-02-20 10:41 GMT+02:00 Iosif Fettich <ifett...@netsoft.ro
>> <mailto:ifett...@netsoft.ro>>:
>>
>>     Hi Eero,
>>
>>     I've noticed you're indication about how to determine which
>>     deamons need to be restarted after an upgrade, given on another
>>     thread:
>>
>>         Please note that you need to restart daemons that are still
>>         using old library versions or reboot the whole machine.
>>
>>
>>         you can use command 'lsof +c0 -d DEL | awk 'NR==1 || /libc-/
>>         {print $2,$1,$4,$NF}' | column -t' to check what daemons are
>>         still using old version of library.
>>
>>
>>     Out of curiosity: within the yum-utils package, there is a
>>     needs-restarting utility that seems to be designed to do about the
>>     same thing (I haven't looked into it).
>>
>>     Would you know how that one or the command line you mentioned compare?
>>     Is one more reliable/safer/easier than the other?
>>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Iosif Fettich
>>
>>
> 



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