Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:44:06 -0500 From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting after Make Install.... Message-ID: <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <aefec1611001191705y636474c5rff82214052b2336e@mail.gmail.com> <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:33 -0500 Roger Roger <rnodal@gmail.com> articulated: > I'm not a FreeBSD expert so I cannot speak about what is considered > "best pratices" but I never restart my server after doing a port > install/reinstall/upgrade/removal. I guess the only time you will need > to do that is when your port may be a kernel module that cannot be > unloaded/reloaded without causing major problems. I only do a ports update when there are a significance number of programs that I have installed that have updates available. If the major players like OpenLDAP, MySQL, Postfix, Apache, etc are all to be updated at one time, I usually choose to reboot after the process has completed. It is not that I feel it is absolutely necessary; but rather that I want to insure that they will in fact all start up correctly, and in some cases, like Postfix, in the correct order. I have on rare occasions found discrepancies on how the system starts and performs after a major update. At worst, you lose only a minute or so of up time, assuming your machine is not a mission critical one. At best, you might discover a problem that might have gone unknown for an extended period of time. I think that the old English saying: "six of one, a half dozen of the other" is appropriate to the situation. Just my 2ยข. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
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