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...
behdad
Jeremy