full-disclosure - Security Updates Without Rebooting

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Date: Tue Nov  8 02:08:30 2005
From: asotirov at determina.com (Alexander Sotirov)
Subject: Security Updates Without Rebooting

Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| wrote:
> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system without
> rebooting the machine?

If you are interested in Windows patches (I apologise for the market-speak):
http://www.determina.com/solutions/liveshield.html

On Linux you can just restart the patched service of course. Most package
managers (i.e. dpkg and rpm) will do it for you after the update.


Alexander Sotirov