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How do I manually acknowledge the "System restart required" indicator?
user name
2006-08-24 15:25:28
Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> It turns out the answer is to delete
/var/run/reboot-required.  This
> file is created when update-manager installs a new
kernel, and removed
> during a reboot. 

I looked at this and though "how could it do
that?".  Then realized it
doesn't, really.  Clever.  /var/run is created in a tmpfs
filesystem.  So
after reboot, nothing gets "removed", it just
doesn't exist anymore - which
is exactly what update-notifier wants.
-- 
derek


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