On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:09:09PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > That's a subjective point of view, if libssl is vulnerable or the > kernel is vulnerable you need to restart too, not because you can't > restart services or use a rolling Kernel (read KSplice) but because > there are multiple ways to look at it, from my perspective a login and > logout is just as fast as a reboot (because reboot requires less steps > for me since again I'm already in my terminal and my laptop boots at > blazing speeds.) I would much rather reboot than trust a system that > assumes it knows every possible service that could be using a > vulnerable lib reliably and reboot them. It's easier that way. Easy > is good but easy shouldn't be annoying like what you describe happens > with update manager when you update >.>
It has long been the way of professional unix servers that they almost never need to be rebooted except for a kernel update, and on 'real' servers you only do that during scheduled maintenance windows. I look forward to the day when someone finds a way to reliably switch into a new kernel so that I never need to reboot a system ever again... except to take it out of service. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
