Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

[Andre Costa]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 22:08, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
<wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not just do reboots at 3 in the morning and it just won't matter all
> that much.  I just have a cron script in /etc/cron.daily that checks to
> see if /var/log/yum has changed since the last reboot and then it does a
> reboot if nobody is logged in.  If I had certain long-running programs
> that needed to finish, I'd have to check for those too, but I don't.

It would work. But that's still not fixing the cause, only dealing
with the consequences.

(BTW: I don't leave my computer on continuously, so I know upgrades
will be effective tomorrow. It just feels plain wrong ;-))

Andre