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| author | Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-01-23 20:41:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> | 2020-01-23 20:41:16 +0000 |
| commit | ed2106921b8d8e83ac6657550ef77bbc096d20f2 (patch) | |
| tree | dc6819abea012beb2294ddf9fc0aa7f18de5e5d9 /en_US.ISO8859-1 | |
| parent | f17c051a28ce003f31481d20b1ce44ed6e73bae4 (diff) | |
| download | doc-ed2106921b8d8e83ac6657550ef77bbc096d20f2.tar.gz doc-ed2106921b8d8e83ac6657550ef77bbc096d20f2.zip | |
Clarify when the user needs to reboot the system in the update section
of the handbook
PR: 195218
Submitted by: freebsd@simweb.ch
Patch by: carlavilla@
Approved by: bcr@(mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23263
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=53811
Diffstat (limited to 'en_US.ISO8859-1')
| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml index 18ac43682b..3c9d8c9bf9 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml @@ -297,6 +297,14 @@ MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints</programlisting> applications should be restarted so that the patched version of the binary is used.</para> + <note> + <para>Usually, the user needs to be prepared to reboot the + system. To know if a reboot is required by a kernel update, + execute the commands <command>freebsd-version -k</command> + and <command>uname -r</command> and if it differs a reboot + is required.</para> + </note> + <para>The system can be configured to automatically check for updates once every day by adding this entry to <filename>/etc/crontab</filename>:</para> |