possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:59:40 +0100
tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've used freebsd for a long while but freebsd-update only relatively
> recently. I have always rebooted the server after freebsd-update install.
> 
> I was wondering - is rebooting a requirement?

	Only if the update installs a new kernel, otherwise some restarting
of services may be required depending on what changed.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>