"der.hans" wrote:
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> Am 07. Nov, 2002 schw=E4tzte George Toft so:
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> > I have a RH box and run up2date via cron. Recently it told me:
> > glibc-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm: Retrieved.
> > glibc-common-2.2.4-31.i386. Retrieved.
> > Preparing...
> > Installing /var/spool/up2date/glibc-common-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm...=
> >
> > Installing /var/spool/up2date/glibc-2.2.4-31.i386.rpm...
> >
> > The question is: after updating libraries, do I have to reboot to rel=
oad
> > them? It seems to me, if I have some binary in memory that uses some=
> > library, which is also in memory, that I would have to restart every
> > binary running, or simply reboot, for the newer version on disk to ta=
ke
> > effect.
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> While I agree it seems that things should break, they seem to work fine=
=2E
> Daemons that have been updated should be restarted. Dependent daemons s=
hould
> be restarted when libraries are replaced.
> =
> X finally died on me last year several months after changing out the
> underlying system a couple of times ( went to 4.0.x then to 4.1.x from =
3.3.x
> ), but I've otherwise been fine waiting for kernel upgrades or new hard=
ware
> for reboots.
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> debian usually restarts daemons during upgrades. Not sure about other d=
ists.
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> ciao,
> =
> der.hans
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This is what I thought. AFAIK, the underlying daemons (not that I have
too many of those on this box) are not restarted.
George
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