Is a restart REALLY required after an upgrade?

[Andrew Zajac]

On 4/11/06, localzuk <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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> As mentioned by another user, this depends on the package. Some
> packages aren't this thorough and manual restaring of daemons is
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Name one.

and the simplest way to ensure this
> is to restart after an update (I know it is a very MS Windows way of
> thinking but it seems to work quite well in my experience).


 That's not how it works.  The only thing that requires a reboot are kernel
changes.  There are no packages in the ubuntu repositories with incompetent
or lazy maintainers who would have you reboot just to get the
/etc/init.d/script to be restarted.
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