On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 02:54:57PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > Hmmmm what did I miss? I thought kernel patches needed a reboot? You didn't miss anything. If your machine is running software with patches available, yes, those patches will need a reboot. If the machines are hidden internally and running software from 2010 with no patches available, they just stay up forever... -- | Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home: www.idallen.com Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca | Former college professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: teaching.idallen.com | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org