> /usr/sbin/checkrestart in package debian-goodies tells you what processes > are using obsolete libraries and can usually tell you which services to > restart.
Nice! I hadn't heard of that before. Is there anything already existing that can run as a cronjob and periodically let the admin know if there're any out-of-date libraries in use? -Steve On 27 February 2011 23:50, Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/27/2011 04:56 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.< >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> In<[email protected]>, Aaron Toponce wrote: >>>> >>>> More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or >>>> GNU/Linux server: >>>> >>>> * Forcing applications to use the new libraries. >>> >>> Poor reason; I've never found an application that needed a reboot to fix >>> this. (Yes, you need to restart the application, but not the OS.) >>> >>> lets look at this for a second. lets look at the libraries that init >>> uses: >> >> swilson@swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/catalyst/New/lib/New/Controller$ ldd >> /sbin/init >> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffe94c1000) > > [snip] >> >> hummm, so libc6 was updated on january 11, when did i last reboot this >> box? >> swilson@swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/catalyst/New/lib/New/Controller$ uptime >> 19:28:15 up 41 days, 17:35, 6 users, load average: 1.72, 0.72, 0.26 >> >> so, i'm pretty sure that whatever got fixed in libc6 is not fixed on this >> box if it deals with the base library. maybe i'm wrong - i'm pretty sure >> it's possible to link a new library to a running process but i don't know. >> and i don't know whether the dpkg scripts will do this whenever a new >> library is installed for a running process. >> > > /sbin/init is the only process that can't be forced to use a newly installed > library w/o rebooting. Every other process can. > > /usr/sbin/checkrestart in package debian-goodies tells you what processes > are using obsolete libraries and can usually tell you which services to > restart. > > -- > I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
