Re: Moving to pkg-based in 15.1 ...

From: Dennis <denradford_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:40:07 UTC 
On 2026-06-24 15:55, vermaden wrote:
>> and based upon that, I knew whether or not I needed to reboot.
> My way of things are often not the obvious ones but ... if new kernel has been installed - then reboot is needed.
>
> It kernel is the same - then 'sysutils/checkrestart' tells which things needs to be restarted w/o reboot.
>
> root@freebsd15:~ # checkrestart
>    PID   JID USER         COMMAND      WHY ARGUMENTS
> 90634     0 root         sh           bin -sh
>    442     0 root         syslogd      .so /usr/sbin/syslogd
> 84027     0 root         cron         .so /usr/sbin/cron
> 99100     0 root         syslogd      .so /usr/sbin/syslogd
>    533     0 root         syslogd      .so /usr/sbin/syslogd
> 68981     0 root         sshd         .so /usr/sbin/sshd
> 90127     0 root         login        bin login [pam]
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Regards,
> vermaden

checkrestart

Installed and tried it on several systems. Seems to be a very useful 
utility.

Thank you for mentioning it in this thread.