Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-13 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-10-2009 3:24 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM, D Tucny wrote: >> 2009/4/10 Mike A. Harris >>> Jerry Geis wrote: What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... >>> I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that >>> y

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM, D Tucny wrote: > 2009/4/10 Mike A. Harris >> Jerry Geis wrote: >> > What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... >> >> I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that >> you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses.

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/10 Mike A. Harris > Jerry Geis wrote: > > What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... > > I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that > you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses. ;o) > > > Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reb

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Nichols
Mike A. Harris wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: >> What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... > > I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that > you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses. ;o) > >> Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot.

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
Jerry Geis wrote: > What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... I'd say the rule of thumb is to do whatever works best for you, and that you'll likely get quite the variety of different responses. ;o) > Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. > > But if you update something

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Michael A. Peters
Les Mikesell wrote: > > And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. > I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils > and run yum-recover-transaction to continue. > That's why I use screen for remote updates. __

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Brian Mathis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I had done the --downloadonly - and the disconnect wasn't network >> related as other connections to the same site stayed up. It seemed like >> something in the cleanup pass killed sshd - and the running yum, leaving >>

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I had done the --downloadonly - and the disconnect wasn't network > related as other connections to the same site stayed up.  It seemed like > something in the cleanup pass killed sshd - and the running yum, leaving > a mess.  The transaction r

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: > >> >> And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. >> I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils >> and run yum-recover-transaction to continue. >> > I always run my updates through screen. That way disconnects aren't a prob

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-9-2009 10:07 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: > 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 Yes, but any program that is alrea

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Les Mikesell schrieb: > > You have some chance of 'knowing' the server side of things - a lot less > about what other users might be running. What should you expect if you > have logged in users over freenx, remote X or at the console running > (say) firefox through an update? Or other long ru

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: > 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 >>> Yes, but any program that is already running will keep using the old >>> versions of the pr

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-9-2009 9:01 AM Robert Heller spake the following: > At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:38:08 -0500 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Robert Heller wrote: >>> At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list >>> wrote: >>> What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... Cer

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:38:08 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > >> What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... > >> > >> Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. > >> > >> But

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Les Mikesell
Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list > 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

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:49:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list 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 a

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread David Lemcoe
Warren, thank you very much for the info! I learned a lot. On 4/9/09, Warren Young wrote: > nate wrote: >> Jerry Geis wrote: >>> What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... >> >> only with new kernels. > > ...and then only when you want what the new kernel provides. > > I have my syste

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 09 April 2009, nate wrote: > Jerry Geis 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

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Warren Young
nate wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: >> What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... > > only with new kernels. ...and then only when you want what the new kernel provides. I have my systems configured so yum is allowed to download and install new kernels, but don't usually reboot unless

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread nate
Jerry Geis 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? only w

[CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Jerry Geis
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? Thanks, Jerry _