How do I know when a reboot is required?

Mon Jan 12 23:43:07 UTC 2004

On January 12, 2004 18:36, Don wrote:
> But, how do I know what needs to be restarted/rebooted when updates to
> things like cron or glibc are installed? To "be safe" I could always reboot
> the machine after installing updates, but that seems unnecessary and
> certainly unwanted.

The only time you need to reboot the machine is when you install a new kernel. 
All other rebooting is useless.

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