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Re: Automatic restart of services after a library upgrade



Quoting Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (2015-02-20 22:10:03)
> Lets say there is a daemon / service D which is using library L. Both 
> are in separate packages. Security updates are handled via 
> unattended-upgrades. Now lets assume that unattended-upgrades upgrades 
> L. After that upgrade it does not restart D which means D remains 
> vulnerable until the box restarts or root restarts it manually.
> 
> Is there something that the package maintainer of D & L forgot in 
> order to get a restart automatically working? Or is that something 
> that has to be enabled within unattended-upgrades to get this done I 
> am simply not aware of it?
> I noticed that php restarts apache but this restart is part of php's 
> postinst script. Is there are a trigger based solution of which I am 
> not aware of?

There is needrestart and (experimental) needretart-session.


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