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Re: All services that require a restart from libc6 upgrade...



On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:39:02PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote:
> > Ok, I'm tired of having to track all services that might need to be
> > restarted after a libc6 upgrade. So here's what I am going to do. I want
> > to require all packages that need this to declare a new reply in it's init
> > script. It's very simple, I check your init script like this:
> 
>  Is it posible to detect if the service needs a restart by examining the
> executable file?
> 
>  E.g.:
> 	objdump -T $( readlink -f /proc/$PID/exe ) | egrep 'symbol1|symbol2'
> 
>  The processes to restart could be taken from ps AND /etc/init.d/*.

How would it know that it is a service as opposed to a running "ls" or
cronjob? How would it know how to restart simple executables?

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