[BlueOnyx:10189] Re: BO5016 Update Procedure

[Bill Hicks]

Michael,

Ok that sounds good. I saw the kernal updated yesterday / today - so I will 
do a reboot on the servers in the morning. On rebooting, if I do a reboot 
through the Gui is this the same as doing /sbin/shutdown -r now? (I would 
assume it is)

Bill.


> Hi Bill,
>
>> Up till 2 weeks ago I had always rebooted the servers at 6am if any 
>> updates
>> where made so that everything would be nice and fresh since it only takes
>> about 1 minute to reboot them.
>
> Don't reboot them, Bill. You really don't have to reboot your servers for 
> any
> BlueOnyx related updates (i.e.: Updates that come out of the [BlueOnyx] 
> YUM
> repository).
>
> There are a few OS related updates which make it sensible to reboot. Like 
> when
> a new kernel gets installed. Then it makes sense to reboot sometime soon 
> to
> get the benefit of running the newer kernel.
>
> Another sensible time for a reboot can be if there is a major OS update 
> like
> we had a while back when 5107R and 5108R upgraded from SL-6.1 to SL-6.2. 
> But
> during those major updates the kernel usually gets updated, too. So that 
> would
> be the primary reason for the reboot.
>
> Other than the kernel everything else can usually always be upgraded 
> nicely
> without rebooting.
>
> -- 
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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