On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 23:28:49 +0300,
Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yazici@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know it'll be a little bit offtopic (when considered to list
> caption), but you don't have to (also you shouldn't) reboot your
> machine after a locale generation. Just login again to take changes
> effect. (You know, one of the best side of Linux as a server OS is
> that you don't have to reboot system after every configuration. Please
> give up your Micros~1 habbits. :)
There is a good reason to reboot after global or server configuration changes.
You want to test that the machine will boot up properly with that
configuration. It is cheap insurance to check this while you are in a
maintenance mode rather than find problems after the machine has gone
down unexpectedly and won't come up properly.