cookbook-restartwatch

Note: This cookbook was previously available as "restart-watch". My apologies for any inconvenience with the change.

The restartwatch Chef cookbook includes a default recipe to add a logwatch service that will indicate if a system reboot is required as the result of an update installed by unattended-upgrade.

The service ignores logwatch detail level and range. If a reboot is required, a "Restart required" section is added to the report, otherwise it's not.

For a more complete description of how this works, check out Extending logwatch on the RollNoRocks blog.

Berkshelf and librarian

  # Berkshelf:
  cookbook 'restartwatch', github: 'flatrocks/cookbook-restartwatch', tag: '0.3.0'


  # librarian-chef:
  cookbook 'restartwatch', github: 'flatrocks/cookbook-restartwatch', ref: '0.3.0'

Supported platforms

This was written and tested for Ubuntu 12.04. I will probably work with any linux distrubution that can install logwatch.

Dependencies

This cookbook lists the standard "logwatch" cookbook as a dependency, but the only real requirement is that logwatch is installed prior to running this default recipe.

Using this cookbook

For what it's worth, I do not recommend including this cookbook by reference (using librarian-chef, or Berkshelf, for example.) It's a really basic cookbook and if you want to use it, I recommend just copying locally or using it as an example to create your own version.