[BUGS] question on up keeping of a production server

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:37:55PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:25:46PM +1000, Brad Rushworth wrote:
> > How easy is this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [root at 220 ~]# ./freebsd-update.sh fetch
> > [root at 220 ~]# ./freebsd-update.sh install
> > Installing updates... done.
> 
> Don't you have to reboot after that?  Is there an equivalent to
> mergemaster?

If freebsd-update doesn't say you need to reboot, then it isn't
necssary. Of course, shared libraries in use etc need to be restarted
after being updated.

Edwin

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