Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) and a new kernel. > [joe@khorlia Desktop]$ su -c needs-restarting > Password: > [joe

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 20:29, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've tried using needs-restarting after updates, but never had it report > that anything was needed, either running it as myself or as root. > Today's update included Firefox, Thunderbird (both running at the time) > and a new kernel. > >> [joe@khorlia Desktop]$

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > [John@localhost ~]$ su > Password: > > [root@localhost John]# needs-restarting > > 3433 : /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin > 5567 : /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox-UILocaleen-GB > > Thunderbird and Firefox restarted here Interesting. I tri

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > Haven't seen any problems yet... I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were updated, but running needs-restarting, either as root or as myself r

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread John Pilkington
On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> Haven't seen any problems yet... > > I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox > and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to update my system. Both were > updated, but running needs

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.08.2011 00:59, schrieb John Pilkington: > On 23/08/11 22:34, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >>> Haven't seen any problems yet... >> >> I just fired up my laptop, also running F 14. After making sure firefox >> and the GIMP were running, I used yumex to up

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/24/2011 04:36 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > i did not know "needs-restarting" before some posts on this mailing-list > but for me on F15 it DOES NOT work too, it gave nothing out after a lot > of updates including running services like httpd and php itself Have you filed a bug report? Rahul --

Re: Needs-restarting is useless

2011-08-23 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 23/08/11 21:07, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:43 PM, John Pilkington wrote: >> [John@localhost ~]$ su >> Password: >> >> [root@localhost John]# needs-restarting >> >> 3433 : /usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin >> 5567 : /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox-UILocaleen-GB >> >> Thunderbird a