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by **Eric Kleinber** » Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:00:00

After installing the y2k apars for AIX 4.2.1, is a reboot of the system
required? I don't see any mention on the rs6000 website...

by **Kevin R. Ge** » Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Quote:> After installing the y2k apars for AIX 4.2.1, is a reboot of the
system
> required? I don't see any mention on the rs6000 website...

It almost certainly will require a reboot. In general, any updated
fileset that starts with "bos.rte" will require a reboot.

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by **Paul Landa** » Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Probably, but it depends on what PTFs you may have already had on
your system. If you have the smit.log, look for a message from the
installp which says 'reboot required' or look for the word 'bosboot'.

If you already had some/most of the 4.2.1.X PTFs then a reboot
would not be needed. If you were at an old level (4.2.0.0) then
a reboot would be needed. If you were somewhere in between
(4.2.1.0) then looking at the installp output for the messages
I mentioned above would tell you.

> After installing the y2k apars for AIX 4.2.1, is a reboot of the system
> required? I don't see any mention on the rs6000 website...

by **Lawry Sim** » Tue, 20 Jul 1999 04:00:00

> After installing the y2k apars for AIX 4.2.1, is a reboot of the system
> required? I don't see any mention on the rs6000 website...

I thought the documentation that came with the patch said that you should.
Certainly I have done so on every system that I've patched, and would think
of it as 'best practice'.

Regards,
Lawry

by **Peter Bennet** » Wed, 21 Jul 1999 04:00:00

I think you probably only need to reboot if the install kicked off a
bosboot process to update the boot logical volume.
Just a suspicion.
If in doubt, boot it.
Pete Bennett

> > After installing the y2k apars for AIX 4.2.1, is a reboot of the system
> > required? I don't see any mention on the rs6000 website...

> I thought the documentation that came with the patch said that you should.
> Certainly I have done so on every system that I've patched, and would think
> of it as 'best practice'.

> Regards,
> Lawry

by **Villy Kru** » Wed, 21 Jul 1999 04:00:00

Quote:
>I think you probably only need to reboot if the install kicked off a
>bosboot process to update the boot logical volume.
>Just a suspicion.
>If in doubt, boot it.

If you update some daemons and don't restart them, then you'll continue
running the unpatched version. What is the easiest way to make sure all
daemons are restarted?

Villy

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