On Jan 9, John Andersen
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:03 am, Ron Joffe wrote:
My questions is two fold. First is this group aware of any other patches that would require user interaction. For example if I have set up automatic updates, in what instances would I need to reboot and/or manually restart a damon.
The benefit of the patch is not realized if one of the patched modules is in memory. So if sendmail or postfix were patched you might miss something important if you only rebooted or restarted for kernel patches.
If as root you do lsof |grep "RPMDELETE"
Unfortunately, this is no longer true for current SuSE versions. There is a more complicated method of checking incorporated into fou4s. At least some services (like postfix) seem to be automatically restarted after installation (through rpm postuninstall script). I haven't had to restart services after an update on my servers for some time. On desktop machines with kde it is sometimes necessary, though. Markus -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus(at)gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \