On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Jerry <ges...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:33 -0500 > Roger Roger <rno...@gmail.com> articulated: > >> I'm not a FreeBSD expert so I cannot speak about what is considered >> "best pratices" but I never restart my server after doing a port >> install/reinstall/upgrade/removal. I guess the only time you will need >> to do that is when your port may be a kernel module that cannot be >> unloaded/reloaded without causing major problems. > > I only do a ports update when there are a significance number of > programs that I have installed that have updates available. If the > major players like OpenLDAP, MySQL, Postfix, Apache, etc are all to be > updated at one time, I usually choose to reboot after the process has > completed. It is not that I feel it is absolutely necessary; but rather > that I want to insure that they will in fact all start up correctly, > and in some cases, like Postfix, in the correct order. I have on rare > occasions found discrepancies on how the system starts and performs > after a major update. At worst, you lose only a minute or so of up time, > assuming your machine is not a mission critical one. At best, you > might discover a problem that might have gone unknown for an extended > period of time. I think that the old English saying: "six of one, a > half dozen of the other" is appropriate to the situation. > > Just my 2ยข. > > -- > Jerry > ges...@yahoo.com > > |::::======= > |::::======= > |=========== > |=========== > | > > You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. >
Thank you for sharing your procedure. I do not have enough time with FreeBSD but it helps to read about different things other people are doing. I really admire and appreciate the quality of this mailing list. -r _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"