topic Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not. in Operating System - HP-UX

Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

arun khatwani — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:11:24 GMT

How can we find out whether installation of any software requires reboot or not, means where can we lok that info.

Please anybody let me know, i have taken eg for apche software.

Regards,
Arun K.

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

Steven Schweda — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:15:10 GMT

> [...] any software [...]

This covers a lot of ground.

For Apache, I'd expect not.

In most cases, reading the product's
installation instructions may be helpful.

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

Rita C Workman — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:19:04 GMT

Installing most software does not require a reboot, with the exception of software that would control hardware say for example HBA's. One such example is PowerPath (EMC product), because it controls failover of your HBA (pvlinks), and as such would require a rebuild of the kernel to implement the software.

But I do not believe that Apache would require a reboot.

Regards,
Rita

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

Pete Randall — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:19:45 GMT

Generally, applications like Apache are not going to require a reboot. The things that do require reboot affect kernel filesets, require re-building the kernel and, thus, require a reboot. This is rarely true for applications software.

Pete

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

mobidyc — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:20:03 GMT

Hello,

use the -v flag from swlist

a depot bundle for example:
# swlist -v -l fileset -s $PWD/ENHAUTO.depot '*' |grep is_reboot |sort -u
is_reboot false
is_reboot true

this command will ask all included fileset for the arg is_reboot, if you have 'true' somewhere, you need a reboot.

Regards,
Cedrick Gaillard

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

arun khatwani — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:47:55 GMT

All are right at their points but i dont rely on assumptions is there any way that i can check like patches we have information in ITRC that particular patch requires reboot or not , like that only could we have information for software

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

Dennis Handly — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:51:23 GMT

>use the -v flag from swlist

No need to use -v once you have found the attribute.
# swlist -l fileset -a is_reboot -s $PWD/ENHAUTO.depot '*' | sort -u

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

mobidyc — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:59:24 GMT

Your right Dennis.
I had not thought to this ;-)

PS: no point for this message.

thanks

Re: Whether Installation of Apche software requires a reboot or not.

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:22:09 GMT

Shalom,

No.

you can update the service, restart it without bouncing the server.

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