Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

Andrew Bacchi bacchi at rpi.edu
Wed Apr 5 16:32:04 UTC 2006


Not every kernel update is a serious risk.  Often the kernel update only 
contains a driver for a  piece of hardware.  I try to decide whether the 
kernel upgrade is important enough to apply before I reboot a server.

Harry Hoffman wrote:

>Gah! are you kidding me? You don't reboot for things like updates to the
>kernel or glibc?
>
>Seems like that is just asking for trouble.
>
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Andrew Bacchi
Staff Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518 276-6415  fax: 518 276-2809

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