Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz
Date	2021-12-12 09:10 +0100
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On Sb, 11 dec 21, 10:42:56, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 05:52:30 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I don't use that but I do something similar. Does unattended-upgrades
> > email me each day until I reboot?
> 
> Not every day, but every day when an upgrade is applied it emails you,
> and tells you that a reboot is pending.

As far as I recall there is some flag file that packages must set to 
signal a reboot is required. It should be trivial to set up a daily cron 
job to send you a mail if that file is (still) present.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-10 23:20 +0100
  Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 04:40 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-11 07:00 +0100
      Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 19:10 +0100
        Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 09:10 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 22:00 +0100
  Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-12-12 02:30 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-12 08:20 +0100
      Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-12 16:20 +0100

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