Discussion -- perhaps a trollette -- re: upgrades !

[Dave Stevens]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 06:43:35 pm Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 16:42 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> > and on that point, I've done kernel upgrades to my Centos 5.3 box many
> > times with no reboot.
>
> Do you *just* mean doing a "kernel upgrade" or do you mean an upgrade
> and *using* the new kernel, too?

yes, both. Last reboot on the old serevr beside me was 148 days ago and three 
kernel updates that I recall.

[root at cserver ~]# uname -a
Linux cserver.davedomain 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Dave
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
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