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Date: 2008sep27
OS: Linux

Q.  I know I need to reboot my box when the kernel is updated for it to
come into effect but I have automatic update running so... I can I tell
if I need to reboot my machine?

A.  Compare the currently running kernel version with those installed.

To see what's currently running do:

	uname -r

And you might get:

	2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686

To see what's installed (on Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS) do:

	rpm -q kernel

And you might get:

kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686

If the version you are running is the biggest one installed then you don't
need to reboot.
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