On Thursday, 13 March 2025 08:45:12 Greenwich Mean Time Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > After upgrading my system, I always run "needrestart". > This works, mostly, fine. But sometimes I don't pay enough attention > and accidentally allow a critical service to be restarted, causing the > server to become unstable. > > One of this is "multipathd", which is required for the filesystems. > Another is "xenstored" (which has obvious issues with all the VMs running) > > I am unable to find any config files, but am hoping I can add services > like this to some exclude-list somewhere. > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > Many thanks,
I didn't know about needrestart, so I installed it. 'man needrestart' lists a -c option to specify a config file, but no details. I haven't trawled through / usr/share/doc/needrestart-* ; have you looked there? -- Regards, Peter.
