Re: reboot after yum?
- From: Aragorn <stryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:52:40 GMT
On Monday 17 July 2006 00:42, Todd and Margo Chester stood up and spoke
the following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/
Michael Heiming wrote:
In comp.os.linux.misc Todd and Margo Chester
<ToddMargoChester@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I just did a massive YUM update of CentOS 4.3 (same as Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, only cheaper) to the tune of 497 Meg..
Question: is YUM smart enough to up and down services after it
updates them, or do I need to reboot?
Yum doesn't need to care about it, rpm runs the scripts contained
in the rpm packages which usually restart services. However, if
the update contained a kernel you need to reboot anyway to get it
running. Look in /var/log/yum.log if unsure.
Yum just automates updates and clears up dependencies, besides
being able to do installs/removes and fancy stuff like group
installs. It's is a great tool, but not your package manager, try
'man rpm', especially the "query-options" should be interesting
for you.
Thank you. Now I understand. Its whatever is in the rpm.
A reboot would probably be good, especially when certain software
like to remove their start points from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (samba).
That way I can fix any start points. (And, I won't get THAT call
after a power outage!)
Please acknowledge that a reboot is _never_ necessary in a UNIX
operating system *unless* you are planning to start a newer kernel or
add/remove non-hotpluggable hardware.
Every running daemon can be restarted manually if need be. ;-)
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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