Re: Patches that require a reboot

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/20/04

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    Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:14:01 -0500

    On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:05:31 +0000, Scott Howard wrote:

    > 114732-01 - SunOS 5.9_x86: sbin/init Patch

    Hmmm, that one patched a shutdown problem. Nothing to do with startup.
    And I never deliberately shut the server down except for required reboots
    or hardware maintenance.

    > This just means that you applied the patches at the same time. If you had
    > manually applied specific patches (or even if you applied a patch cluster
    > and the kernel patch hadn't been updated) then this wouldn't be the case.

    >113986-11 - SunOS 5.9_x86: linker Patch

    Nothing in the "Problem Description" which appears to affect /sbin/init.
    But I may have missed seeing it; that is a big patch.

    > This isn't Linux we're talking about. Kernel modules (ie, drivers) are
    > generally not tied to a specific update version of the kernel. The only
    > exception is where there are changes made in both the kernel and the
    > driver to fix a specific bug.

    I use Linux on a desktop machine and, reluctantly, on a couple of servers
    which I do not own. The hardware available was x86 and Solaris x86
    was unsuitable either for lack of capability or availablilty of the
    desired app.

    You did not answer my point, however. In the "Recommended" patch clusters
    have there been new driver patches without a new kernel patch being
    included also?

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