Skip the Restart?

[billy_gates]

When I do an update in OSX that requires a restart, is there a way to just restart the "things" that it updated without restarting the whole computer?

[trc3]

When it's done updating you can force quit software update and you won't have to restart.  I don't think the update with take affect until you restart though, but I wouldn't recommend doing this, why not just restart?

[billy_gates]

I know you can just force quit it, but I don't wanna restart, I use my Mac as a server.  But I also want the update to take affect.  And now that Mac OS is Unix, I figured that it didn't "have" to be restarted after an update just like Linux doesn't have to.

[choasforages]

i don't get the osx rebooting thing anyway

its built on mach for an unkown dietys sake. why it would need to shutdown at anytime i don't get. maybe its an apples for idiots kinda thing

[ravuya]

Well, hit ps -e, figure out which (if any) components it updated, and kill -9 them.

However, I heard somewhere that OS X does some extra updating while booting after your restart (now that files aren't busy), so you might not have the full effect.

[Master of Reality]

that is odd that you must restart for anything other than a kernel update. You might be able to go down to runlevel 3 then come back up to 5... but then the webserver would still be down for a couple seconds anyway

[hm_murdock]

Remember, there's a non-UNIX layer to OS X, as well.

[Master of Reality]

but can you still go to different runlevels?
Can you at least restart the display stuff, depending on the upgrade that might be what just needs restarted.

[choasforages]

well, maybe the microkernel, and thats about it. its all unix in there. /*classic is an application that runs in unix i think*/