If you are doing a kernel upgrade you need to reboot. Any other updates don't need a reboot, however you may need to restart the relevant program that has been updated.
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 10:57 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: > On the Hardy desktop, the update notification icon handily tells me when > I need to reboot my desktop for the updates to take effect. > > I also run another machine, a Hardy Server with no GUI. > > After I have performed apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade on the > server, how do I know whether or not I need to reboot please? > > -- > Andrew Oakley > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
