On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:46:30 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 9/15/2011 19:36, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Yeah, kernel updates require a reboot.  Other than that, you usually
>> don't have to
> 
> Again, it depends on what you're doing and where the Linux is living.
> I'll grant that *desktop* linux systems rarely *need* rebooting. And I'd
> argue that if you have a server whose *only* job is being a web server,
> then restarting the web server after an upgrade is essentially the same
> as a reboot, except faster.

I don't see a need to regularly reboot Linux servers either, unless 
there's a kernel update.

Jim

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