Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates...

Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot.

But if you update something like krb5 or pam does that require a reboot? Does the "fix" get automatically loaded and used or do you just do a reboot always?

You only *really* need to reboot if/when you update the kernel. Yum/RPM takes care of restarting daemons, etc. during the update process. This is NOT MS-Windows....

Thanks,

Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos