George Toft wrote:
> I have a RH box and run up2date via cron. Recently it told me:
> glibc-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm: Retrieved.
> glibc-common-2.2.4-31.i386. Retrieved.
> Preparing...
> Installing /var/spool/up2date/glibc-common-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm...
>
> Installing /var/spool/up2date/glibc-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm...
>
> The question is: after updating libraries, do I have to reboot to reload
> them? It seems to me, if I have some binary in memory that uses some
> library, which is also in memory, that I would have to restart every
> binary running, or simply reboot, for the newer version on disk to take
> effect.
The only updates you should have to reboot to use are the kernel updates. All
the others can be used without a reboot.
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