Uptime vs. Kernel updates (was Re: [TriLUG] Prosperous New Year)

[John Broome]

On 1/3/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm impressed.
>
> I'm also a bit curious. As good as a long uptime is, what do you guys
> do about security updates to the kernel?  Sure you can get them via
> apt-get, yum, whatever, but doesn't it require a re-boot to actually
> start USING a new kernel?

Most of my client machines only have ssh open to the world.  As long
as I keep that current (which generally doesn't require a reboot) i'm
a-ok to let it keep cranking along without a reboot.


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