On 16/01/2015 17:50, Marc Auslander wrote:
Pol Hallen <de...@fuckaround.org> writes:
Hi folks!
a security updates of kernel is available (from apt-get upgrade), so:
must I reboot my pc (after upgrade) to avoid security problems? Is
there another way?
thanks for help!
Pol
I always reboot after a kernel related upgrade on the grounds that if
something goes wrong, I want to know about it right now.
The alternative is that sometime in the future, a scheduled or
unscheduled reboot leads to trouble and you have no idea what caused it!
I saw somewhere during kernel compilation an option to load a kernel on
the fly but I haven't gone further (maybe it was targeted at kernel
developers).
So usually, you do reboot after a kernel upgrade if you want to run the
new one.
It's the only occasion (I hope systemd hasn't changed that!) when an
upgrade needs a reboot (or am I wrong?). Sometimes though you need a
simple log out / log in.
Cheers,
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