On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gb...@bzb.us> wrote: > For those wanting to know which processes need to be restarted after > update, > there is the appropriately named dnf needs-restarting: > http://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/needs_restarting.html > >
I also just found: Project Tracer: what you should restart after "dnf upgrade" You can read about it here, if you're interested: https://goo.gl/ZFS29E Preview snippet: ... Every time you update your system, your currently running applications should be restarted otherwise you will be still running those old binaries before the update. You have 3 options how to resolve it: 1. You ignore it completely and you patiently wait until your system crash. 2. Do Offline Updates <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates>. 3. After restart you carefully restart only those applications and daemons, which needs to be restarted. I really dislike Offline Updates as I see no reason for going offline for dozens of minutes. And there is only few scripts which helps you when you want to follow option 3. Most famous is needs-restarting <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/needs-restarting.1.html> from yum-utils. But the output is very ... ehm ... unfriendly. And it is very slow. ...
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