At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/