No X version of notify-reboot-required

[Paul Elliott]

Hi Brian,

Brian McKee wrote:
> Can we make a 'notify-reboot-required' lite for systems without X?
<snip>
> Comments?

This is related, although not directly to a patch I'm planning on
submitting to unattended-upgrades.

We have a number of systems that we use unattended-upgrades on as for
one reason or another we don't particularly mind if the system breaks
after an upgrade. The problem we had though is that these systems used
to sit around for a while with reboots pending. Rather than use the
automatic reboot option of unattended-upgrades I added a small patch to
add a '[reboot required]' message to the subject line of emails sent by
the unattended-upgrades script. This way the sys admin(s) of the servers
in question can schedule reboots at their convenience.

My original patch can be found here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/415202

If any interest is shown I plan on adding a toggle option to
50unattended-upgrades with the option disabled by default to prevent any
possible breakage by the change in subject line formatting. (Might as
well fix bug #510555[1] too).

Would other people be interested in this patch in Lucid?

[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/510555

-- 
Paul Elliott, UNIX Systems Administrator
Computing Service, University of York