On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 12:58 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What would be genuinely useful would be a tool to tell you how to get > to a clean system with minimum fuss, e.g. one of: > > * restart the following user processes: a b c ... > * log out and in again > * reboot the system Rather than tell you how to do it, it ought to ask you whether its allowed to do what it needs to. i.e. Tell you that it needs to restart the following listed services, and you'd allow or defer it. And if there was a mixture, such as restarting Apache, re-logging to apply things to pertaining to your desktop, and rebooting for a new kernel. You'd individually authorise each step, skip any you want to defer, or just go for a reboot to avoid typing in "y" a dozen times. It's the computer, not you, let it do the damn work. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.18.9-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 9 17:04:05 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
