Hi Patrick,
I've added a first implementation of a easy mode:
# needrestart -r l -m e
Scanning processes...
Scanning candidates...
Scanning linux images...
Some services need to be restarted!
Some user sessions running outdated binaries!
This system runs outdated binaries, you should consider rebooting!
For more details, run 'needrestart -m a'.
The new CLI option '-m' (there is a config file option, too) can be
used to switch between (e)asy and (a)dvanced mode. I will put the
final notification ("This system...") into debconf, so debconf will
notify the user using its own UI implementation.
The default configuration is using advanced mode and interactive
restarts - but you could easily override it by a config file in
/etc/needrestart/conf.d/.
There is still some testing and tuning required, maybe you could give
it a try? If you have needrestart 2.7-1 installed it should be suffice
to grab the needrestart command from git
(i.e. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liske/needrestart/master/needrestart).
HTH & TIA,
Thomas
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 02:08:51PM +0200, Thomas Liske wrote:
> tags 819824 upstream
> thanks
>
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 07:18:39PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> > we are wondering if needrestart should be installed by default in Whonix.
> >
> > When needrestart is automatically run during apt-get dist-upgrade,
> > I am concerned, that its output by default is too technical and verbose
> > and will therefore add more confusion.
>
> ACK
>
> > Therefore I am hereby kindly asking if you could add an easy mode please?
> >
> > - can be enabled by dropping some file into /etc/needrestart/conf.d
> > - no automatic restart
> > - it's output would be limited to the following
> >
> > > Services need to be restarted. Reboot recommended.
> > > For more information, see 'man needrestart'.
> >
> > Or does the current configuration already allow configuring needrestart
> > that way?
>
> to disable any restarts you could try:
>
> # Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
> $nrconf{restart} = 'l';
>
> But it will still print the commands to restart the affected services.
> To reduce the output to a minimum as in your example requires changes
> in needrestart.
>
>
> HTH,
> Thomas
>
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