07-30-2008
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Originally Posted by
itik
[...] The apar instructions is to reboot on the ibm site. Is there's a way to update apar w/o reboot? I think I heard something before that it's possible.[...]
As long as you don't want to use the changed feature that comes with such an APAR which requires a reboot you don't have to reboot. I am not aware of any os update that would force you to reboot immediately. However if you want to use the updated kernel you will have to reboot.
Mind also that if you don't reboot the patched kernel on disk is not the same as the kernel in memory. Hence some things won't work. E.g it might be impossible to do any io or vm tuning till you reboot and you might get strange/silly error messages.
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reboot
HALT(8) halt HALT(8)
NAME
halt, poweroff, reboot - Halt, power-off or reboot the machine
SYNOPSIS
halt [OPTIONS...]
poweroff [OPTIONS...]
reboot [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off or reboot the machine.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
--help
Prints a short help text and exits.
--halt
Halt the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
-p, --poweroff
Power-off the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
--reboot
Reboot the machine, regardless of which one of the three commands is invoked.
-f, --force
Force immediate halt, power-off, reboot. Do not contact the init system.
-w, --wtmp-only
Only write wtmp shutdown entry, do not actually halt, power-off, reboot.
-d, --no-wtmp
Do not write wtmp shutdown entry.
--no-wall
Do not send wall message before halt, power-off, reboot.
EXIT STATUS
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
NOTES
These are legacy commands available for compatibility only.
SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemctl(1), shutdown(8), wall(1)
systemd 208 HALT(8)