From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FZdv8-0006SO-Se for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:06:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3T15Qh5011412; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:05:26 GMT Received: from mtaout-m.tc.umn.edu (mtaout-m.tc.umn.edu [160.94.23.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3T0wbwI015439 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:58:37 GMT Received: from [134.84.129.150] (x84-129-150-dhcp.reshalls.umn.edu [134.84.129.150]) by mtaout-m.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:58:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] x84-129-150-dhcp.reshalls.umn.edu [134.84.129.150] #+LO+TS+AU+HN Message-ID: <4452BA3A.4030302@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:58:34 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060328) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system References: <4452B658.5000000@gnosysllc.com> In-Reply-To: <4452B658.5000000@gnosysllc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 007f9d64-d41f-4a54-bd65-ce87da51b4b0 X-Archives-Hash: 941745c5ff51074ea599023caa4dc0a4 Kevin wrote: > Hi All- > > I've read the portage documentation at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched > and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question > that I don't see answered anywhere. > > It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system > upgrade done with: > > emerge -uD system > or > emerge -uD world > > I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. Nah, you can restart pretty much any service to get the new version going. Technically you shouldn't ever have to reboot except kernel updates. (We aren't running windows here) ;) HTH, (unofficial advice) -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list