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Operating Systems Linux Debian How to determine if a package needs a reboot? Post 302290414 by pludi on Monday 23rd of February 2009 08:03:32 AM
Old 02-23-2009
May I suggest an alternative route to that end: Build a small network containing those OSs and applications that you have in production, plus a dedicated server to roll out updates. When the distributor puts new updates online, apply them to the test environment first. If they still behave well after a certain period (eg. 2 weeks), put them on your internal update server, from which your other machines can automatically update. Those that don't work just get skipped.
As for the test environment: if you don't have any special hardware needs, virtualization works just fine (VirtualBox, VMware, ...)
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

update-notifier

UPDATE-NOTIFIER(1)					       Update Notifications						UPDATE-NOTIFIER(1)

NAME

       update-notifier - daemon which notifies about package updates.

SYNOPSIS

       update-notifier [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       update-notifier puts an icon in the user's notification area when package updates are available.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Shows help options.

       --debug-hooks
	      Enable hooks debugging.

       --debug-updates
	      Enable updates/autolaunch debugging.

       --debug-inotify
	      Enable inotify debugging.

       --debug-firmware
	      Enable firmware debugging.

       --force
	      Force start even if the user is not in the admin group.

       --force-use-gksu
	      Force running all commands (update-manager, synaptic) with gksu.

       --startup-delay
	      Delay startup by given amount of seconds.

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use.

       In addition, the usual GTK+ and GNOME command line options apply. See the output of --help for details.

SEE ALSO

       update-manager(8), synaptic(8)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Vincent Cheng <Vincentc1208@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

0.99.3								   November 2010						UPDATE-NOTIFIER(1)
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