{"id":93,"date":"2004-04-07T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/restarting-os-x\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T15:23:10","slug":"restarting-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/restarting-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Restarting OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question.  If OS X is Unix-like, why does it have to be restarted almost every time I do a software update?  <\/p>\n<p>I have a Linux server (also Unix-like) that has been up for hundreds of days at a time without having to be restarted for fairly major updates including updating PHP, Apache, mySQL, the hostname, perl and dozens of other software packages.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about OS X that requires it to be restarted for updates?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"restart.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marcusvorwaller.com\/weblog\/archives\/restart.jpg?resize=425%2C158\" width=\"425\" height=\"158\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a question. If OS X is Unix-like, why does it have to be restarted almost every time I do a software update? I have a Linux server (also Unix-like) that has been up for hundreds of days at a time without having to be restarted for fairly major updates including updating PHP, Apache, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}