CLI reboot notification after system update?

[emk2203]

I am running a system with only SSH access, and I miss a reboot notifier in the CLI after a major system update.

I know how to play it by ear and reboot when I think it’s a good idea, but it still would be nice to get a notification in the CLI which mirrors what the GUI reboot notifier does. I searched a little, but wasn’t able to find a solution. Any ideas?

[eso]

Hello @emk2203 ,
How about this script?

#!/usr/bin/bash
# Do we need a reboot in arch?
s1=$(pacman -Q linux | sed 's/linux //')
s2=$(uname -r | sed 's/-a/\.a/')

 [[ "$s1" = "$s2" ]] && echo "OK" || echo "REBOOT"

[cactux]

There was this post I came across some time ago:

Check if a reboot is neccessary

So it’s basically just a list of packages that need reboot after an update? Well, that’s a bit disappointing. But it makes it easy to check in a script. This script will tell you whether reboot is necessary, with approximately the same accuracy as eos-update-notifier: #!/bin/bash # Check whether reboot is necessary after an update. # dependency: checkupdates UPDATES=$(checkupdates) # assume packages containing these strings in name need reboot after updating REBOOT="(ucode|cryptsetup|linux|nvi…