On 6/29/05, Martín Marqués <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Non sense. If you are upgrading the kernel you have to reboot. Else, you > should be reading Linux uin a nut shell. :-D The current yum service does not inform the administrator when a new kernel update is installed. The entire point of automatic updates is to avoid user intervention. Most folks probably had their systems configured to install updates automatically, got the new kernel installed, and did not reboot -- unaware that it was necessary. Perhaps the yum service can be modified to notify the administrator if any packages are updated that require a reboot or at least any package containing the string "^kernel-*". Another option would be to add yum log monitoring functionality to the logwatch(1) package that would notify the user of any updates that have been applied either since the last time the utility was run or that have been applied in the last 24 hours. I do not think it is reasonable to expect the user to manually check /var/log/yum.log every day when the system has utilities already for pointing out the "important bits" from the system logs. -- Chris "With the way things are starting to go in this country, if forced to choose between being caught with a van full of pirated DVDs or heroin you'd actually have to pause and think about it." -- Michael Bell, drunkenblog.com
