Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:26:39 -0500 From: Roger <rnodal@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting after Make Install.... Message-ID: <9d972bed1001200726x4a374cb0t1c0c0a8462e39b32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <aefec1611001191705y636474c5rff82214052b2336e@mail.gmail.com> <9d972bed1001191713o395562a7i19274c67c247d1fb@mail.gmail.com> <20100120064406.75800ca4@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 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
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