Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 00:38:21 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:59 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> >> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> >>> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >>>> so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
> >>> Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it. kernel,
> >>> dbus, etc...
> >> Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?
> >
> > The system bus cannot be restarted. Similarly, any apps you have
> > running will be using old libraries so things like glibc you really want
> > to reboot for.
>
> Back in the days, sshd had a trigger to restart itself on glibc update. init
> had a similar thing too I guess...
Yes, but that's not everything on your system. Should we add triggers
for everything you can possibly run? :)
Jeremy
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