svn commit: r53811 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge
Sergio Carlavilla Delgado
carlavilla at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 23 20:41:17 UTC 2020
Author: carlavilla
Date: Thu Jan 23 20:41:16 2020
New Revision: 53811
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53811
Log:
Clarify when the user needs to reboot the system in the update section
of the handbook
PR: 195218
Submitted by: freebsd at simweb.ch
Patch by: carlavilla@
Approved by: bcr@(mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23263
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml Thu Jan 23 20:04:17 2020 (r53810)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.xml Thu Jan 23 20:41:16 2020 (r53811)
@@ -297,6 +297,14 @@ MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints<
applications should be restarted so that the patched version
of the binary is used.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Usually, the user needs to be prepared to reboot the
+ system. To know if a reboot is required by a kernel update,
+ execute the commands <command>freebsd-version -k</command>
+ and <command>uname -r</command> and if it differs a reboot
+ is required.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>The system can be configured to automatically check for
updates once every day by adding this entry to
<filename>/etc/crontab</filename>:</para>
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