yum update

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:42 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> 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.

I've never seen yum tell me I need to reboot.

poc