Fedora Users — Re: How do I know when a reboot is required?

Normally I only reboot about every 2-3 weeks no matter what or how many things I install. However if you install something and it's not working the way it should, or not at all try rebooting and see what happens. Most likley it just needs to be re-installed.

JesterDev

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From: Don

To: Fedora-List

Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:36 PM

Subject: How do I know when a reboot is required?

With MS Windows, it seems a reboot is required after nearly every software update.

One of the things I like about UNIX/Linux is the overall design of things such that reboots are not really part of the "problem resolution process".

If I use up2date to get a new httpd update, after it's installed I restart the httpd daemon.... similar for sshd updates etc.

For a kernel I reboot the whole machine....

But, how do I know what needs to be restarted/rebooted when updates to things like cron or glibc are installed? To "be safe" I could always reboot the machine after installing updates, but that seems unnecessary and certainly unwanted.

Thanks,

Don Russell

(North America: Pacific Time Zone)

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