From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 09:41:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC70106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mx1.bjare.net (mx1.bjare.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCCD8FC16 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4B55E1E6 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:40:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mx1.bjare.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.871 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.871 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-1.362, BAYES_05=-1.11, RCVD_IN_PBL=0.905, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.1, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.596] Received: from mx1.bjare.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.bjare.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sLveM+jh0+Ft for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:40:06 +0200 (CEST) X-BN-MX1: ja X-BN-MailInfo: BjareNet Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-041-102.ekt.thalamus.net [195.216.41.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.bjare.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D0D25E1DC for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FD9B1C4.6010403@eskk.nu> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:41:24 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120610 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: freebsd-update procedure, question 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: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:25 -0000 When one recives the FreeBSD Errata Notice or FreeBSD Security Advisory The instruction is to do: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install From earlier discussions on this list about the -px number not changing, I usually rebuild and install the kernel. My question is: Do I need to reboot after # freebsd-update install or can I rebuild and install the kernel before the reboot? Thanks /Leslie