On Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:20, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 09:56 -0400, Gene Poole wrote:
> > I started using yum to update my systems as-soon-as 'up2date' was no
> > longer supported. So, I have friends and people I work with asking me
> > for a 'rule of thumb', which I don't know. So, I'm asking the member of
> > this list:
> >
> > What is the 'rule of thumb' for re-booting after the completion of the
> > 'yum -y update' command? How do you know if you should re-boot - if
> > there is a kernel update? Should you reboot based upon what key
> > components have been updated? How do you know what's been updated if
> > you schedule it to run at 2 AM? Do you ever have to re-boot?
> >
> > I don't have a answer to these questions, do you?
>
> AFAIK there isn't a hard and fast rule. You need to look at what yum has
> updated. Thus if it changed the kernel or libc, you should reboot
> whenever convenient. If it changed an X driver or the X server, or the
> basic part of your desktop manager, you'll want to logout and in again,
> usually restarting X in the process. If it changed a running
> application, quit the app and restart it, etc. etc.
>
> I agree it would be nice for yum to tell you this explicitly.
>
If you install logwatch you will get a daily update of many activities,
including a section like this:
--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------
Packages Installed:
kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686
mozilla-filesystem-1.9-2.fc9.i386
initscripts-8.76-1.i386
adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch
Packages Updated:
upstart-0.3.9-19.fc9.i386
libxslt-1.1.23-3.fc9.i386
hal-libs-0.5.11-0.7.rc2.fc9.i386
libdrm-2.4.0-0.11.fc9.i386
libtdb-1.1.1-9.fc9.i386
system-config-printer-0.7.82.2-4.fc9.i386
6:kdelibs-common-4.0.3-7.fc9.i386
....
xorg-x11-utils-7.3-3.fc9.i386
kdebase-workspace-libs-4.0.3-20.fc9.i386
mesa-libGL-7.1-0.29.fc9.i386
nash-6.0.52-2.fc9.i386
Packages Erased:
event-compat-sysv
---------------------- yum End -------------------------
Don't forget to check that you are aliased to read root's mail, though.
Anne
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