From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 15:27:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2311A106566B for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnodal@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDE18FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so1181016qwd.7 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:27:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7dJsEoCGSNylKlpSba3P7yc6gyz3g6VJs300Fslxke4=; b=MEskmQrGEqWzrlquEUUi0JoNMtXsOYyI5Gg7ArUED2AvFkAVxeeGnGp+f3fdRx3Swc WdDQdjkckDjqfg/lM40VRDO4ye8vQmeOMEeex5q4jjq8uxMTdpeARBS+6yFx/XQxUN+T LsGovRx9uNiCJQPL/NIXPAP4X/ppGCYEgvPQY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WHxMGPsgCW8PwZJaktAN+srYBn92JWa5/5OwIGhygFxUfORgeWJdKL4Ufcl1RZW7Dk Gkz/YXZA6xMRn4flELtVLNVjaVPmTqNtmsa1oCdBYkiCVrun/guZUBP4n9BVfWYu/j4Q eU5VaiLG6e1z3I4OQb7sdIaD4gVoItMKzp1xo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.79.231 with SMTP id q39mr67394qak.163.1264001219046; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:26:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com> <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net> From: Roger Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:26:39 -0500 Message-ID: <9d972bed1001200726x4a374cb0t1c0c0a8462e39b32@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Restarting after Make Install.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:27:02 -0000 On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:13:33 -0500 > Roger Roger 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 2=A2. > > -- > Jerry > gesbbb@yahoo.com > > |::::=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > |::::=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > |=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > |=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > | > > You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. > Thank you for sharing your procedure. I do not have enough time with FreeBSD but it helps to read about different things other people are doing. I really admire and appreciate the quality of this mailing list. -r