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Shiner_Man
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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject: Restart Process After Security Update |
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This is probably a very silly question. Obviously if you update something like apache or mysql for a security update you have to restart the service so that the changes take effect. Today there is a zlib security update which I applied. So, what if anything do you have to restart? I avoid reboot'ing the server at all costs because then I'd be back at the windows world.
Would it be a safe bet to simply restart all the services that are available to the public(e.g. Apache, MySQL, SSHD, Sendmail, etc.)? I'm not only talking about zlib here either. What steps do you guys take after applying a security update to a package that has no service running?
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LoDown
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I am not sure, but I don't think you will need to restart anything. If something needs zlib, it will call the library. So since you updated the library, it will call the new library. At least that is how I understand it. Of course, I have been wrong before  |
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Shiner_Man
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| LoDown wrote: | | I am not sure, but I don't think you will need to restart anything. If something needs zlib, it will call the library. So since you updated the library, it will call the new library. At least that is how I understand it. Of course, I have been wrong before |
That makes sense to me.
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