[wplug-internet] Fwd: Updates available - wplug.org update-check

Yaakov M. Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 22:39:52 EST 2010


Just to be pedantic and annoying, the third one is the only convincing
argument to me. :P

-Yaakov 

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:23:57PM -0500, Michael Semcheski wrote:
> With most VPS (such as WPLUG's server at linode.com) you can't update
> the kernel, or you have to do things other than 'yum update kernel' to
> update the kernel.  This is because the host machine chooses the
> kernel it will boot the virtual machine with.
> 
> So it probably wasn't necessary to reboot the server because we ran
> yum update, but there are three reasons I would reboot after a bunch
> of updates:
> 
> 1. You want to make sure that all dependent services are restarted.
> 2. You want to be sure that after an unexpected reboot, everything
> will come up back to normal.  So its good to reboot at a known time
> and then check to make sure everything is OK.
> 3. If a tree falls in the woods... if the wplug.org server is down for
> the 30 seconds it takes to reboot a VPS, will anyone notice?
> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Yaakov M. Nemoy
> <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you update the kernel or just these services/packages? Normally
> > you don't need to restart the whole box. In this case, just run:
> >
> > /sbin/service bind restart
> >
> > and this will restart bind.
> >
> > -Yaakov
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:04:52PM -0500, David Ostroske wrote:
> >> I've run yum update, and updated the server-maintenance log.
> >>
> >> How would I go about rebooting the server? There were bind and openssl
> >> updates, so maybe it's merited?
> >>
> >> -- Dave O
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: root <root at wplug.org>
> >> Date: Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM
> >> Subject: Updates available - wplug.org update-check
> >> To: root at wplug.org
> >>
> >>
> >> This is the update-check script on wplug.org.  There are new
> >> software updates available.  Please log in and run (as root)
> >> 'yum update' to install them.  Thanks!
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