From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 14 15:15:43 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEE8AF301 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:15:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 467tSS6qrDz4RfZ for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1565795742; x=1568387742; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=U1aiycFK1zgvS/79BnNjztLx2TxqFBOKnhlsVlPZtIo=; b=EL74DbMvQC5aw+dm5vqLqEHeOxj1qhIk0Ri63HJ/Z6gZ3eIaSVqFtiRcSmpvQLBqIeC2kpWeAD3WPIkDvjOCaiAZVLX6ZtpdbcZijZNAEdphD703wT1TMXhxvPu2raZpRS+f9jD3YWuUsKl/8wZmi4RiOQHfgNBNz+LW/LssHxY= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xYjkwMDAwMDAwMDAxMjUuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.189.1]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:15:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:06:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1hxurh-000DI1-4Y; Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:07:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:07:04 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: tech-lists Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update Message-Id: <20190814160704.75a360eac1a39bbdf07e496d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20190814145940.GE73009@bastion.zyxst.net> References: <20190814145940.GE73009@bastion.zyxst.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 467tSS6qrDz4RfZ X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=EL74DbMv; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.06 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.87)[-0.870,0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.19)[ip: (-0.52), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(-0.22), asn: 7381(-0.16), country: US(-0.05)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:15:44 -0000 On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:59:40 +0100 tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > I've used freebsd for a long while but freebsd-update only relatively > recently. I have always rebooted the server after freebsd-update install. > > I was wondering - is rebooting a requirement? Only if the update installs a new kernel, otherwise some restarting of services may be required depending on what changed. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith