Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > When libc is initially upgraded for the first time it will ask you if > > you want to restart services. You can answer yes or no at that time. > > But once that option has been set I don't know of a way to change it. > > "dpkg-reconfigure libc6" should

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > When libc is initially upgraded for the first time it will ask you if > you want to restart services. You can answer yes or no at that time. > But once that option has been set I don't know of a way to change it. "dpkg-reconfigure libc6" should do it. -- John Hasler jhas...

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 30 January 2015 00:10:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2015 09:19:30 Lisi Reisz did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > To get the fixes into use, you MUST > > > reboot, no way around it. To do otherwise WILL lea

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote: > Yes, but how to default the upgrade process to ("dont restart" && "dont even > ask")? > I *will* restart the services, but I will do it manually, in order to check > for functional regression. > Prior to the manual restart of services, I need to *blindly* upgrade gl

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 January 2015 09:19:30 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: > > To get the fixes into use, you MUST > > reboot, no way around it. To do otherwise WILL leave the machine > > vulnerable. > > No, you do not necessarily have

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY a écrit : > > Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right > option in order to make it upgrade libc & libc-bin without restarting > the services and without asking what to do. AFAIK, that's the default. I have never seen apt-get restarting or ask

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/29/2015 04:14 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:50:12 +0300 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote: I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc &

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: > To get the fixes into use, you MUST > reboot, no way around it.  To do otherwise WILL leave the machine > vulnerable. No, you do not necessarily have to reboot. As various people have said, you can restart individual services; and you ca

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 29 January 2015 07:50:12 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi all > > I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. > > Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right > option in order to make it upgrade libc & libc-bin with

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Ron
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:50:12 +0300 Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY wrote: > I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. > > Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right > option in order to make it upgrade libc & libc-bin without restarting > the services and

apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
Hi all I'm going to massively upgrade some ghost-vulnerable machines. Digging into the apt-get or aptitude documentation, I miss the right option in order to make it upgrade libc & libc-bin without restarting the services and without asking what to do. Would you know the right option? Thank