[Spacewalk-list] Update behavior for kernel updates?

[Mark Watts]

On 03/04/2012 17:51, visinix the great wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently in the middle of setting up a spacewalk server. I've been
> trying to find documentation on the behavior of updates, namely kernel
> updates.
>
> Does spacewalk simply update the files, and server reboots become the
> responsibility of the administrator? Or does / can spacewalk reboot the
> server when needed, like doing kernel updates / OS updates?
>
> Thanks!
>

Spacewalk does not automatically reboot servers as part of an update 
procedure (as per standard yum behaviour).

One can schedule a system reboot through Spacewalk as another action though.

Mark.