On 01/08/2015 11:57 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 01/08/2015 03:22 AM, Markus Falb wrote: >>> Hi, >>> There was an update of glibc on CentOS 6 >>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2015-January/020863.html >>> and now: >>> >>> # needs-restarting >>> 1 : /sbin/init >>> >>> How do i tell /sbin/init to use the updated files from glibc without a >>> reboot? >> >> You can't. See the manpage for /telinit/ and the warning for the "-U" >> option. > > <snip> > U or u to request that the init(8) daemon re-execute itself. This > is > not recommended since Upstart is currently unable to > preserve > its state, but is necessary when upgrading system libraries. > <snip> > which one assume applied to fedora when it was using upstart, not sysV or > systemd. No data on either of them. The question was specifically about CentOS 6, which uses upstart. SysV init could re-exec itself cleanly. I have no idea, but plenty of doubts, about systemd. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.