* Brian Stults in "what upgrades require reboot?" dated 2000/06/06 14:00 wrote: > I am curious about when you need to reboot after upgrading packages. I > assume if I upgrade a package like gnome-libs, I should restart gnome > but it won't require rebooting. On the other hand, I assume that > upgrading packages like bash and libc will require a reboot. Is that > true? How can I know when I should reboot or not? The only package I can think of that would require a reboot is the kernel-image packages. With Linux all user-space programs are just that, user-space, meaning that stopping and starting them is enough, no reboot required. Things that would be kernel-space are things like filesystem drivers, raid support in the kernel, &c. Unfortunately MS has tainted people's views of just what exactly an operating system is and contains and requires reboots for the simplest things (ahem, network configuration)! -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL++++$ P+>+++ L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger aclark@ghoti.org for GPG public key http://ghoti.org/
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