Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Ron
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:50:12 +0300 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc libc-bin without

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 January 2015 07:50:12 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY did opine And Gene did reply: Hi all I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc libc-bin without

apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
Hi all I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc libc-bin without restarting the services and without asking what to do. Would you know the right option? Thank

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/29/2015 04:14 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:50:12 +0300 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: To get the fixes into use, you MUST reboot, no way around it.  To do otherwise WILL leave the machine vulnerable. No, you do not necessarily have to reboot. As various people have said, you can restart individual services; and you can

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY a écrit : Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc libc-bin without restarting the services and without asking what to do. AFAIK, that's the default. I have never seen apt-get restarting or asking

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 January 2015 09:19:30 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: To get the fixes into use, you MUST reboot, no way around it. To do otherwise WILL leave the machine vulnerable. No, you do not necessarily have to

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 30 January 2015 00:10:18 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2015 09:19:30 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: To get the fixes into use, you MUST reboot, no way around it. To do otherwise WILL leave the

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: When libc is initially upgraded for the first time it will ask you if you want to restart services. You can answer yes or no at that time. But once that option has been set I don't know of a way to change it. dpkg-reconfigure libc6 should do it. -- John Hasler

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: Bob Proulx writes: When libc is initially upgraded for the first time it will ask you if you want to restart services. You can answer yes or no at that time. But once that option has been set I don't know of a way to change it. dpkg-reconfigure libc6 should do it. I

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote: Yes, but how to default the upgrade process to (dont restart dont even ask)? I *will* restart the services, but I will do it manually, in order to check for functional regression. Prior to the manual restart of services, I need to *blindly* upgrade glibc