[CentOS] CentOS 7 (1511) is released

[James Hogarth]

On 15 December 2015 at 12:15, Zdenek Sedlak <dev at apgrco.com> wrote:

> On 12/15/2015 04:52 AM, Richard wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Date: Monday, December 14, 2015 20:38:23 -0700
> >> From: Wes James <comptekki at me.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 12/14/2015 05:46 PM, Wes James wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See this announce mail here:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-Decembe
> >>>>> r/021518.html
> >>>>
> >>>> <snip>
> >>>>
> >>>> I just updated to 7.2 from 7.1.  I did lsb_release -a and it
> >>>> says 7.2.1511.  I haven’t rebooted yet, which items would run
> >>>> with new binaries, anything that isn’t running yet? Ssay I had
> >>>> apache running, it wouldn’t pick up new apache until a reboot,
> >>>> right?
> >>>
> >>> I have no idea, but there are security kernel updates:
> >>>
> >>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-Novemb
> >>> er/002347.html
> >>> <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-Novem
> >>> ber/002347.html>
> >>>
> >>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-Decemb
> >>> er/002732.html
> >>> <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-Decem
> >>> ber/002732.html>
> >>>
> >>> And those will not be active without a reboot.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks to you and John R Pierce for your replies.
> >>
> >> -wes
> >>
> >
> > You can always use the "needs-restarting" script to see what you
> > need to restart.
> >
> > [Someone suggested "lsof | grep DEL | grep /usr" as an alternative.
> > I haven't used that approach or compared it to "needs-restarting" so
> > don't know exactly which is a better approach.]
> >
> > With an update from one point release to another I would think that
> > you'd have a rather unstable system until you do a reboot.
> >
> >
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>
> Hi,
>
> the recommended way is to install yum-plugin-ps and use the 'yum ps'
> command...
>
>
Well the point seems  rather moot for the present update as there is no way
you should not reboot after the milestone of a point release ...