full-disclosure - Security Updates Without Rebooting

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Message-ID: <200511080220.jA82K8BC016192@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue Nov  8 02:20:21 2005
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Security Updates Without Rebooting 

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:05:11 PST, Alexander Sotirov said:

> 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.

Note that rpm will only do that if the person who packaged the updated RPM
specified a 'postinstall' scriptlet requesting it.  So RPM *can* restart a
daemon, but it's a function of the package, not of rpm.
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