[BUGS] question on up keeping of a production server

[Andrew Reilly]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM +1000, Brad Rushworth wrote:
> Edwin Groothuis wrote on 6/06/2008 8:33 AM:
> > 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.
> 
> I reboot to be safe, but I suppose you only need to in certain 
> circumstances (kernel updates etc).

To my mind, rebooting is also usually far the fastest way to be
sure that the necessary libraries and services have been
restarted.  You'd want to be *very* certain of what had been
upgraded, and what the dependencies were, to know exactly which
rc.d knobs to restart manually.  No doubt there are people with
that level of expertise, and systems for which even the tiniest
downtime is worth avoiding.  I'm glad I'm not in one of those
situations....

Cheers,

--
Andrew