yum update

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:56 -0400, Gene Poole wrote:
>> > > I started using yum to update my systems as-soon-as 'up2date' was no
>> > > longer supported.  So, I have friends and people I work with asking me
>> > > for a 'rule of thumb', which I don't know.  So, I'm asking the member of
>> > > this list:
>> > >
>> > >    What is the 'rule of thumb' for re-booting after the completion of the
>> > >    'yum -y update' command? How do you know if you should re-boot - if
>> > >    there is a kernel update?

Yes. If in /var/log/yum.log, you see any new kernel or glibc, you
should reboot. Otherwise, it is generally not necessary for me.



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