2011/10/1 Eirik Øverby <[email protected]>: > On Oct 1, 2011, at 07:12, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 09/30/2011 21:10, Mike Brown wrote: >>> Eitan Adler wrote: >>>>> do I reboot for this one, or not? >>>> The kernel is changed, so yes. >>> >>> Thanks. I had guessed a reboot was needed, but the advisory only mentioned a >>> reboot in the context of building the kernel from sources. Hopefully, when a >>> reboot is required, future advisories will mention it in the >>> freebsd-update(8) >>> instructions. >> >> When would a reboot not be needed for a kernel change? > > Try this: When freebsd-update doesn't actually tell you to reboot. > > I would expect freebsd-update to inform me that I need to reboot if anything > in /boot (or at least /boot/kernel) was touched. In particular when > /boot/kernel/kernel was touched. I know I've been told by freebsd-update to > do a two-stage update in the past (freebsd-update install, reboot > single-user, freebsd-update install again) - I had expected it to do the same > this time, but it didn't on any of the dozen-and-a-half systems I ran it on. > > When looking at the list of files changed between 8.2-RELEASE-p2 and -p3, the > /boot/kernel/kernel is easily missed among them. It's easily concieveable > that a system gets patched and then not rebooted for months in a case like > this. >
Generally users are expected to pay attention to what is updated-- I know this isn't always the easiest task, but blindly following instructions is not something that is generally advocated in FreeBSD. Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
