From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 11:44:09 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 79BA310656EB for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:44:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F1538FC23 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 34422 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2010 11:44:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Reply-To:Organization:X-Mailer:Face:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KbHmK35wxrqSensKZov4jQBHB4vyYxGsdCNcPyviCssElO0p3BaDFXq4JwsBuONhnNKXQSralS7p64RNsvRw1JU6rJKBcUOE25M1RAHK+ZbIJFT0NC2G5KA8I+9fccrKgtleWjl/WJjy1b1L2Pp02QucGwVPU0Yc/4cXcudNMCU= ; Received: from c-67-189-160-65.hsd1.ny.comcast.net (gesbbb@67.189.160.65 with login) by smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2010 03:44:08 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: yeAAMgKswBATCul4lSbCWspvTA-- X-YMail-OSG: yhAWFBkVM1mkkzBn5a66qgmJe_kUWGqCO2.YQ2hCK8lD4lIltcSBHLemHFTlvRmkU0A59CnYeLLTjOXpJv3I1q8NTLgqh7oEB2.drdgm3x3aeDFOhxpLPAGJlCdDnJB29ol1bE96U0U3H1ajW0r_zRcqek4L2_ZQi5ZnEreGYxgW1ZwEjpKEi2C4JTn6ridgArb6S9auDBBfJMvt7HOweJcbX_BUpZ1VzfdBHAeZFIaqi06QY2CZYr6tUqaKuB06JzLDhV3vrowKEamr.3Z8ZUSkGWldT1XtgDczd51V4TlN7zd5QUNrtiFGpA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (scorpio.seibercom.net [192.168.1.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gesbbb@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2D44B2283B for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:44:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:44:06 -0500 From: Jerry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Restarting after Make Install.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:44:09 -0000 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 2ยข. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.