{"id":2331,"date":"2017-02-23T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2017-02-23T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T13:41:01","slug":"ubuntu-updates-are-installed-restart-is-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu: updates are installed, restart is required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember how Linux community used to scoff at Windows for constant restarts and boasted ever longer uptimes: &#8220;my server has been running without reboot for 5 years!&#8221;. Guess what, yesterday I logged in to my Ubuntu server to be greeted with an &#8220;updates are installed, restart is required&#8221; message.  Apparently, this comes with the territory: automatic updates are required to fend off hackers and patch vulnerabilities, and with automatic updates come restarts. Welcome to the grown-up world, Linux!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember how Linux community used to scoff at Windows for constant restarts and boasted ever longer uptimes: &#8220;my server has been running without reboot for 5 years!&#8221;. Guess what, <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=2331\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}