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Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart



On Thursday 29 January 2015 09:19:30 Lisi Reisz did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > To get the fixes into use, you MUST
> > reboot, no way around it.  To do otherwise WILL leave the machine
> > vulnerable.
> 
> No, you do not necessarily have to reboot.  As various people have
> said, you can restart individual services; and you can run needrestart
> to find out which ones need restarting.
> 
> Lisi

I fired off synaptic to go get it, but its apparently not available for a 
Lucid LTS install.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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