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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart
requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the
time).
This is a real shame. One of the selling points of Linux is that you *don't*
need to reboot for every little upgrade (unlike a certain other OS I shan't
name).
Is this necessary for dhclient and dhcp update packages to require restart?
Wouldn't "service network restart" and "service dhcpd restart" in the
install/upgrade
scripts do the trick (after checking that the service is actually running)?
Ssh used to do that since, well, as far as I remember.
Yes, please. Though maybe with prompting; we shouldn't go restarting
possibly-critical services without good warning.
As David said, for dhcpd, 'service restart dhcpd' should be fine. For
dhclient I would question why /any/ restart is needed. If your dhcp
connection is currently established, is dhclient even running? And even if it
is, what benefit do you get cycling the interface /now/, if the new dhclient
takes over whenever the interface cycles anyway?
This is a limitation of the updates system, at least to my knowledge. I
submit updates based on package builds, but cannot set things like 'suggests
reboot' on a per subpackage basis. Since dhclient is a subpackage of dhcp,
and I flag needs reboot for the dhcp package, dhclient inherits that.
But I explained in the previous reply how to cycle the interface using either
the network service or NetworkManager. I still view this as something more
technical users will be familiar with and for the average user, simply
rebooting the system is the easiest method.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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