Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:59:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Yes, you only *need* to reboot to pick up a new kernel. Unlike MS-Windows, none of the other updates *require* a reboot. Note: if Warning, though: there's a big difference between *need* and *should*. glibc (or other widely used

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:56:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:59:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Yes, you only *need* to reboot to pick up a new kernel. Unlike MS-Windows, none of the other updates *require* a reboot. Note: if Warning,

[CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing to some other date), right? Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas Göttgens
Hi Fajar, usually you're fine, although i experienced some kind of binary rot if I did that too excessively. Especally things that are located near the kernel like initscripts and the xen daemon may start acting funny (like domU not starting up any more and such things...) if the kernel version

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:15:38 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Barnes
Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing to some other date), right? On the topic of updating the kernel

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/25/11 3:15 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing to some other date),

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 03/25/11 3:15 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I'm curious. If I do yum update (which include kernel update) but don't reboot. Is it OK? I mean apart of the kernel, other things like services, we don't have to reboot if we don't have the chance to do it (postponing

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Devin Reade
Slightly OT, but I have more than one pacemaker/corosync cluster where one of the main reasons to use a cluster (in addition to the availability aspect) is to be able to perform running updates without affecting the user base. As in: 1. All services running on node A. 2. Update node B. 3.

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/25/2011 11:17 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: http://www.ksplice.com/ I've heard of it, but never used it. Curious to hear other people's experiences... I have met and spoken at length with the ksplice guys - its really cool stuff, and they are a great bunch of guys. If you do consider

Re: [CentOS] updating without rebooting

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Barnes
On 03/25/2011 11:17 AM, Steve Barnes wrote: http://www.ksplice.com/ I've heard of it, but never used it. Curious to hear other people's experiences... I have met and spoken at length with the ksplice guys - its really cool stuff, and they are a great bunch of guys. If you do consider