On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:59 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
>>> Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> said:
>>>> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:41 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>>> so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
>>>> Or to reboot for one of our frequent updates that require it. kernel,
>>>> dbus, etc...
>>> Why does anything other than a kernel update require a reboot?
>>
>> The system bus cannot be restarted. Similarly, any apps you have
>> running will be using old libraries so things like glibc you really want
>> to reboot for.
>
> Back in the days, sshd had a trigger to restart itself on glibc update. init
> had a similar thing too I guess...
Yes, but that's not everything on your system. Should we add triggers
for everything you can possibly run? :)
There's this yum plugin..... ;)
-sv