CentOS - Jan 2015 - restart after yum update (6.6)?

Hi,

according to this :

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28144/after-yum-update-is-it-a-good-idea-to-restart-the-server

i should reboot my server after updating packages i.e: kernel, glibc, libc.
Maybe it's a silly question, but Is it necessary if I don't use
graphical environment ? (and don't want to use the latest kernel yet)

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:36, Mateusz Guz <Mateusz.Guz at itworks.pl>
wrote:
> according to this :
> 
>
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28144/after-yum-update-is-it-a-good-idea-to-restart-the-server
> 
> i should reboot my server after updating packages i.e: kernel, glibc, libc.
> Maybe it's a silly question, but Is it necessary if I don't use
graphical environment ? (and don't want to use the latest kernel yet)
If you don?t want the kernel to update, just use ?exclude=kernel* on yum or
whatever.  Why update it if you aren?t going to use it?

Might as well be deliberate and know you?re purposefully skipping something.

Nate

Someone have updated it without my knowledge, now i have to make a choice: 
-don?t reboot and wait for errors
-reboot (which im trying to avoid)

What about (g)libc package, anyone encountered similar situation ?


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Nathan Duehr
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:08 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] restart after yum update (6.6)?


> On Jan 15, 2015, at 12:36, Mateusz Guz <Mateusz.Guz at itworks.pl>
wrote:
> according to this :
> 
>
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28144/after-yum-update-is-it-a-good-idea-to-restart-the-server
> 
> i should reboot my server after updating packages i.e: kernel, glibc, libc.
> Maybe it's a silly question, but Is it necessary if I don't use
graphical environment ? (and don't want to use the latest kernel yet)
If you don?t want the kernel to update, just use ?exclude=kernel* on yum or
whatever.  Why update it if you aren?t going to use it?

Might as well be deliberate and know you?re purposefully skipping something.

Nate
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