Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dann frazier [2009.08.06.2150 +0200]: > Yeah, rebooting is certainly a good sysadmin practice, esp after a > significant upgrade, but I just can't think of many packages that > need to request a reboot from the admin during install/upgrade. Every. single. one. ;) > > > I do like the

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:34:23PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > Yeah, that might make sense - esp if there are other such > > packages, but I can't think of any myself (thankfully). But > > I think for the kernel case we would probably want that dropped-in > > file to be managed by a more inte

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dann frazier [2009.08.06.2118 +0200]: > To me, it seems more like an external service. Like you mention, > multiple linux-image packages could be installed at one time, so > it would seem like the logic is something we'd want to factor out > into a single standalone package. It is also

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:35:49PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach dann frazier [2009.08.06.1853 +0200]: > > Any reason this couldn't be fully implemented externally to linux-2.6? > > The parsing code should be static enough to live outside, I would > > think. > > No reason why it cou

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach dann frazier [2009.08.06.1853 +0200]: > Any reason this couldn't be fully implemented externally to linux-2.6? > The parsing code should be static enough to live outside, I would > think. No reason why it couldn't happen externally. It just seems that the linux-image packages are the

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:46:20PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > Maybe the linux-image packages could install a cron.daily script > that compared the currently installed version to /proc/version and > sent an e-mail to root in case there's a mismatch,

Bug#540202: include a cron reboot reminder

2009-08-06 Thread martin f krafft
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Maybe the linux-image packages could install a cron.daily script that compared the currently installed version to /proc/version and sent an e-mail to root in case there's a mismatch, which most likely means that a new kernel exists, but the machine has not bee