On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:39:02PM -0300, Nicol?s Lichtmaier wrote: > > Ok, I'm tired of having to track all services that might need to be > > restarted after a libc6 upgrade. So here's what I am going to do. I want > > to require all packages that need this to declare a new reply in it's init > > script. It's very simple, I check your init script like this: > > Is it posible to detect if the service needs a restart by examining the > executable file? > > E.g.: > objdump -T $( readlink -f /proc/$PID/exe ) | egrep 'symbol1|symbol2' > > The processes to restart could be taken from ps AND /etc/init.d/*.
The checks required to do it this way would probably change between glibc releases. It would be much nicer to have a method that would work forever. -- - mdz
