** On Oct 17, Ben Collins scribbled: > 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/*. > > How would it know that it is a service as opposed to a running "ls" or > cronjob? How would it know how to restart simple executables? Maybe it's time to start marking daemon service packages as such? Some field (say 'Daemon: yes|no' - if the field is present and its value is 'yes' then it requires restart on nss change, if it is present and its value is 'no' - no restart is required) in control would be just fine, I suppose.
marek
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