Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 9:07 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> That's not absolutely true, specially after a YOU update. If I do an
> update, and the machine starts acting up, I reboot. Sure, I can check
> what services were updated and restart them, but it is way faster and
> safer to simply reboot.
>
> What if it is a production server? Well, you do not update a server
> that is in use, you wait. And you take measures to be able to remove
> the update if necessary.
>
> And, as Alex reinstalled the system from scratch, it makes sense to
> try at least a reboot, doesn't it?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>        Carlos Robinson

Plus there's always the (remote) possibility that something that got 
updated would cause a boot to hang or cause some type of boot failure.  
Better to find that out now when you know you have done some updates 
that 3 months from now when you wouldn't have much of a clue what had 
changed.




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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         11/25/03 
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