[rhelv6-list] How do you know when a reboot is required after yum update?

[Greg Swift]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Hearn, Stan J. <stan.hearn at nscorp.com> wrote:
> My Package Updater (PUP) in Centos 5 somehow knows when a reboot is needed after an update.
>
> How does it know?
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> My concern is that we have systems that appear in satellite to be up-to-date.  But if they were never rebooted after an update, they really aren't.
>
> I see this question asked frequently, however I've not found the answer.

I recently read some discussion on this....

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OfflineSystemUpdates
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/OfflineSystemUpdates