Re: dhclient and dhcp update require restart?
Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
Hi, something that bothers me a bit... More and more system restart
requests with each update (even if one doesn't use the package at the
time).
This is a real shame. One of the selling points of Linux is that you
*don't* need to reboot for every little upgrade (unlike a certain other
OS I shan't name).
Is this necessary for dhclient and dhcp update packages to require
restart?
Wouldn't "service network restart" and "service dhcpd restart" in
the
install/upgrade
scripts do the trick (after checking that the service is actually running)?
Ssh used to do that since, well, as far as I remember.
Yes, please. Though maybe with prompting; we shouldn't go restarting
possibly-critical services without good warning.
As David said, for dhcpd, 'service restart dhcpd' should be fine. For
dhclient I would question why /any/ restart is needed. If your dhcp
connection is currently established, is dhclient even running? And even
if it is, what benefit do you get cycling the interface /now/, if the
new dhclient takes over whenever the interface cycles anyway?
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