On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 00:54 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 12:58 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > What would be genuinely useful would be a tool to tell you how to get
> > to a clean system with minimum fuss, e.g. one of:
> >  
> > * restart the following user processes: a b c ...
> > * log out and in again
> > * reboot the system
> 
> Rather than tell you how to do it, it ought to ask you whether its
> allowed to do what it needs to.  i.e. Tell you that it needs to restart
> the following listed services, and you'd allow or defer it.

I meant the list to be read as a menu to be clicked on.

> And if there was a mixture, such as restarting Apache, re-logging to
> apply things to pertaining to your desktop, and rebooting for a new
> kernel.  You'd individually authorise each step, skip any you want to
> defer, or just go for a reboot to avoid typing in "y" a dozen times.

More complicated but sure.

> It's the computer, not you, let it do the damn work.

Exactly.

poc

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