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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