I frequently receive updates in software section. Mostly they are related with NethServer core, manager etc. Sometimes there are system module updates, too.
I wonder if such updates needs server reboot to start working.
Is there a way to identify if I need to reboot server or not by the name/group of updates?
It is not a problem for me to reboot my servers at all. Several minutes of downtime is not important for my use case (mostly used for gateway, dhcp server & VPN server).
Any relevant services should be restarted when the updates are installed. The only updates that would really call for a reboot would be kernel updates.
This won’t update the kernel, however only hardware or security issues need to reboot on the new kernel. I do play with long uptime and it is a cry time when I do reboot