You really don't. There's been some work to dynamically reload, but I haven't seen anything terribly successful. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > How do you restart the kernel without rebooting? You know, to implement a > new version of the kernel? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:16 PM, sean wrote: > >> For libraries, you can restart any processes that have loaded the old >> libraries into memory. Generally you can use lsof to identify these >> processes. >> >> Rebooting will of course force all services to restart, thus making >> the updates "take effect". That's probably why he said that. >> >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Stephen Partington >> wrote: >> > Depends on the update. Mainly kernel changes. >> > >> > On Feb 8, 2015 6:51 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: >> >> >> >> I got some guy saying you need to reboot Linux for updates to take >> effect. >> >> I tell him no then he changes his stance, you need to reboot for >> kernel and >> >> system library updates. I agree with the kernel upgrade but what about >> >> system libraries???? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com