30 Oct
2014
30 Oct
'14
2:14 p.m.
Once upon a time, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu said:
If I remember Unix world, patching almost never led to downtime and almost always could be accomplished in presence of users logged in.
I think that's a rose-colored glasses look in the rear-view mirror. The "traditional" Unix flavors I dealt with (Solaris and DEC Unix) required reboots; DEC Unix pretty much required going to single-user mode to even install a patch kit. When it wasn't required, it was highly recommended by the documentation.
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Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net