Re: Reboot in postinst
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:06:55 +0100, Andreas Barth
<aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>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.
I haven't been asked to re-start any services by glibc updates for
quite some time, and back in the days when glibc asked to restart
services, it always failed.
So, rebooting seems to be the only way to be sure after a library
update.
Greetings
Marc
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