[CentOS] CentOS 7 (1511) is released

[Zdenek Sedlak]

On 12/15/2015 02:17 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
> 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 ...
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No discrepancy here ;-)

I just wanted to share this because some of the plug-ins didn't exist
before and therefore not everyone is aware of them...

//Zdenek