Re: restarting services
On Fri, January 30, 2015 11:05, Jan Wagner wrote:
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> Hi Isidor,
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> Am 30.01.15 um 07:15 schrieb Isidor Zeuner:
>> However, I wondered if it wouldn't be appropriate to have the
>> upgrade restart the services which link to libc6? Otherwise,
>> running services would still be vulnerable after the upgrade.
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>> Any thoughts?
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> you can use "/usr/sbin/checkrestart" from the debian-goodies package
> to check what needs to be done.
>From jessie and on I'd recommend "needrestart", which automatically runs
after an APT run, prompts nicely about the services to restart and then
actually does that. Very user-friendly.
Cheers,
Thijs
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