-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Shawn M. Jones wrote: > >>3. If glibc is updated, you must reboot to have many processes use the > >>new glibc. > > > >This can be acomplished without the need of a reboot.</SNIP> > > > Yeah, now that I reread it, I don't know what I was thinking when I > wrote that. I do know that we had a machine that had been up for YEARS > with processes each running various versions of glibc, but looking back, > I think the reboot was done because it was easier that identifying each > process and restarting them in order. That, my friend, is very much true. Depending on the kind of server you are running (mumber of different processes), a reboot will be much easier. Did that myself a few times. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCnz/npdyWzQ5b5ckRAtZhAKCeWd79pLYIyY53/gcBVDLuslTZfACgmPmu WdH6Q/PMJ636NG9fNfFIxLI= =hwYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----