On 2019-12-09 21:44, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
On 12/9/19 2:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 08:53 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>> As long as the payment industry allows serial credit card fraud,
>> criminals can avoid prosecution by operating from certain countries,
>> programmers fail to use good security practices, and IOT devices
>> are not getting security patches, more and more effort towards
>> keeping systems secure will be needed.
>>
>
> That's not a reason to reboot because I updated Firefox (for example)
> when I can just restart it. This all-or-nothing approach is one thing
> that turns me off about Gnome.
There is a friendly command to tell you:
# needs-restarting
The other option is "tracer".
DESCRIPTION
Tracer determines which applications use outdated files and prints them.
For special kind of applications such as services or daemons, it sug‐
gests a standard command to restart it. Detecting whether file is out‐
dated or not is based on a simple idea. If application has loaded in
memory any version of a file which is provided by any package updated
since system was booted up, tracer consider this application as out‐
dated.
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