Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:41:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53811 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge Message-ID: <202001232041.00NKfGcS022963@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: carlavilla Date: Thu Jan 23 20:41:16 2020 New Revision: 53811 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53811 Log: Clarify when the user needs to reboot the system in the update section of the handbook PR: 195218 Submitted by: freebsd@simweb.ch Patch by: carlavilla@ Approved by: bcr@(mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23263 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml Thu Jan 23 20:04:17 2020 (r53810) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml Thu Jan 23 20:41:16 2020 (r53811) @@ -297,6 +297,14 @@ MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints< applications should be restarted so that the patched version of the binary is used.</para> + <note> + <para>Usually, the user needs to be prepared to reboot the + system. To know if a reboot is required by a kernel update, + execute the commands <command>freebsd-version -k</command> + and <command>uname -r</command> and if it differs a reboot + is required.</para> + </note> + <para>The system can be configured to automatically check for updates once every day by adding this entry to <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>:</para>
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