yum update

[John Thompson]

On 2008-05-14, Gene Poole <gene.poole at macys.com> wrote:

>    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? Should you reboot based upon what key
>    components have been updated?  How do you know what's been updated if
>    you schedule it to run at 2 AM?  Do you ever have to re-boot?

You really only need to reboot if the kernel has been updated, and yum 
will inform of of that when it finishes the update.

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)