Am 14.07.2013 14:35, schrieb Matthew Miller: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:51:05AM +0200, lee wrote: >>>> The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes >>>> like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being >>>> replaced by more recent versions. Maybe this could be done in Fedora as >>>> well? >>> You could try using yum-cron. >> Automatic updates? I'd rather not do that since it sometimes seems >> advisable to reboot after an update. > > It's often advisable, but usually only because the updates may not take > effect on already-loaded code and not all updates can restart all relevant > services. So, applying updates and not restarting should be no worse than > not restarting at all
that's not true depending on the software you are *highly* advised to re-start a service after a depending library got updated i had not too long ago the case that a update of libcurl friday evening without *hard* restart httpd leaded to beginning some hours later in PHP written webservcies stopped to connect to a customers WSDL services and that was 100% because some httpd processes after "MaxRequestsPerChild" has reached loaded the new libcurl while the master process has loaded the old code not too long ago there was a discussion on the devel-list about the unpredictable impact of prelink in case of long running processes - and you *can not* know what will be affacted in which way after random updates are applied in background
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