How can I check from the command line if a reboot is required on RHEL or CentOS?

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Published on 2010-03-13T12:52:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 12:55 UTC
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I'm using CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a few machines without the GUI. How can I check if recently installed updates require a reboot? In Ubuntu, I'm used to checking if /var/run/reboot-required is present.

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