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Author: James Mcphee
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: reboot
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~(-:
>> >>
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