And since you can apply them at any time, you even don't need to spend the time waiting that your mission critical server is alive again ;) You mean with read-only / ? How could updates become active without reboot? You can't change the files already opened by running processes. Are we only talking about updates of the kernel and libc or about all
On 03/21/2017 05:33 PM, Michael Matz wrote: programs? For the first one, we need to to reboot, but not for the latter one. I always just restart services, not the whole server. For GUI systems, often a logout/login is sufficient. Are transactional upgrades enforcing reboots after every upgrade? -- python programming - mail server - photo - video - https://sebix.at cryptographic key at https://sebix.at/DC9B463B.asc and on public keyservers