Tomas Pospisek <t...@sourcepole.ch> writes: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:10:46 +0100, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 20:40 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >>> >>> > I want to announce restart-services here [1][2]. It's a script >>> > that tries to restart all services that have had their >>> > dependency packages updated. This is primarily useful when >>> > security-relevant libraries get security releases. >>> > >>> > It's using checkrestart from the debian-goodies package to do >>> > most of its work. >>> > >>> > Together with the unattended-upgrades package it is saving me >>> > a lot of system maintenance time, thus I am announcing it here >>> > in the hope that it will save others a lot of time as well. >>> >>> Sounds useful, maybe put it in the debian-goodies package? > > I've proposed this to Javier [3] and it's been quite well received :-) > >> What, yet another feature reserved for those in the know? Surely we >> should be doing this by default. > > I agree. Could you suggest a way forward? Currently I'm aiming for > debian-goodies, however maybe unattended-upgrades would be a better fit. > However I think really it should go into apt-level inftrastructure. > > ?
I want to automatically restart services so that / and /usr can be remounted read-only again. But I don't want unattended upgrades. So for me debian-goddies is a better fit. Easy enough to add it then to the apt config. >>> Also, please blacklist gdm3 and dbus since restarting them currently >>> kills GNOME sessions (and probably other user desktop sessions started >>> by gdm3). > > Noted. I'll discuss this with Javier. > > PS: Sorry Ben for also replying in private to you. I'll have to get used > to mailing lists (and my web mail client) again :-o > > [3] http://bugs.debian.org/676509 MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r4tbd2ha.fsf@frosties.localnet
