Seeing What Updates were Applied

[dermotd]

When I log into my clients WHM I see the yellow bar across the top, 'You must reboot the server to apply software updates'. How do I see what updates were applied, so I can decide whether to reboot the server? Does grep -i 'updated' /var/cpanel/updatelogs/<latest update log> give the full story, or only any updates applied on the date of that log?

I have read from other forum postings that a server should only be rebooted following kernel updates (if thats your preference of course). How do other people approach reboots?

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hello,

You can check the yum log and the cPanel update log to determine what had been updated:

yum
/var/log/yum.log

update logs
/var/cpanel/updatelogs/

To determine what specifically is being updated and the source of the reqeuest for rebooting is you can run the following:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/needs-restarting-cpanel