Re: Reboot in postinst
* Andreas Barth (aba@not.so.argh.org) [050121 13:10]:
> * Tino Keitel (tino.keitel@gmx.de) [050121 13:02]:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:03:08 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On 20 Jan 2005 14:45:52 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > >Yes. Debian packages are supposed to be able to be installed and
> > > >start working without requiring any reboots. We've made this work
> > > >pretty well for libc and all kinds of hard cases; you can make it work
> > > >for yours too I'm sure.
>
> > > This prompts a question I have been wanting to ask for ages: When a
> > > security update for, say, libc6, libssl or libz is installed, do I
> > > need to restart services or not? That's one of the question you ask
> > > three people and get five different answers.
>
> > Yes, you should restart the services, since the libraries are loaded by
> > the service when the it starts, and an upgrade won't replace libraries
> > in running services.
> I disagree. You should warn the administrator that he has to do that.
> Especially just restarting ssh is _very_ wrong IMHO, because it can
> easily kill the only access to a remote computer. Take a look how glibc
> does it, that's fine IMHO.
JFTR: I meant "You" as "the package maintainer". "You" as in
"Administrator of the local machine" should of course restart all code
using old libs. E.g.
lsof | grep dpkg- | awk '{print $1, $8}' | sort +0
helps you to find out which ones.
Cheers,
Andi
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