Is a restart REALLY required after an upgrade?

Tue Apr 11 19:56:01 UTC 2006

On 4/11/06, Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com> wrote:
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> I'll guess that you need to reboot to restart the many running
> low-level daemons that might have been upgraded.  (Unless you want to
> restart them each by hand.)  Same story for kernel modules, and the
> kernel itself, if upgraded.

Each package would stop/start/restart its' daemon in the pre/post install
script.  That is taken care of for you.  That is not why you have to reboot.

The Dapper kernel is changing frequently, these days.  That's why we see the
purple "restart required" icon so often.

azz
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