Bill Davidsen wrote:
Georg Wittig wrote:
Hi,

can anyone please explain the difference between the output of
      yum ps                (from the RPM yum-plugin-ps)
and
      needs-restarting      (from the RPM yum-utils)

I couldn't find many infos about those 2 commands.

I'll take a whack at clarifying.

yum ps - tells you what packages are associated with which processes. Can be
used before the fact to determine if doing that update is a good idea.

needs-restarting identifies (after update) processes using packages (typically
libraries) which have been updated.

Is that enough?

NOTE: I discovered what I think is a bug in needs-restarting, when started as a normal user it runs for some time before going out with permission issues. If it were mine I would check for root at the start and give a user-friendly "you need to be root to run this package" message.

Since it's a matter of taste (I like to avoid user questions) not function, I guess I shouldn't report it, but ugly.

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