Re: Efficient way to keep track of security updates

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Subject: Re: Efficient way to keep track of security updates
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:32:07 +0800
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Tiberiu Popescu wrote:

> I have one more question: checkrestart lists the processes that need to be
> restarted so I can do that without a reboot but, except a kernel upgrade,
> are there any other cases when a reboot is still required so that the kernel
> uses the new versions? For example with eglibc I restarted the affected
> services. Do I still have to reboot?

If you restarted every process on the system (all of them use eglibc)
then that should be enough. Personally I prefer a reboot as it is
simpler.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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