{"id":12553,"date":"2026-07-21T20:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12553"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:47:06","slug":"dnf-do-i-need-to-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12553","title":{"rendered":"DNF &#8211; Do I need to restart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, DNF will\u00a0<em>tell<\/em> you if a restart is really needed. And which packages need the restart, too.<\/p>\n<p>dnf needs-restarting will report packages that need a restart to be fully applied and `echo $?` is 1 when a restart is needed and 0 when it is not (for your automation and scripting use).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"851\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dnf-needs-restarting-750x420.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, DNF will\u00a0tell you if a restart is really needed. And which packages need the restart, too. dnf needs-restarting will report packages that need a restart to be fully applied and `echo $?` is 1 when a restart is needed and 0 when it is not (for your automation and scripting use).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1415,47,294,1570],"class_list":["post-12553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-dnf","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-patch-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12555,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553\/revisions\/12555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}