<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Kai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au">vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
About patch management, I haven't seen how ours is managed yet. I can understand if major things like kernerl updates, or in Windows case, key dll's, etc need to be re-read, and/or re-registered, a restart is needed, but for general patching I'd think only the relevant services need restarting to process the changes.</blockquote>
</div><br>I've yet to see a day where I didn't have to restart a windows box after updates. I do however quite often reboot a linux box post patching, just to be sure everything comes up correctly. I'd rather spend the 30 seconds waiting for the box to reboot at a convenient time rather then trying to diagnose a fault after an unplanned outage.<br>
<br>Leon<br>