On 11/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Note that rpm will only do that if the person who packaged the updated RPM
> specified a 'postinstall' scriptlet requesting it. So RPM *can* restart a
> daemon, but it's a function of the package, not of rpm.
[...]
Sorry for the lat
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:42:11PM +, Carlos Silva aka|Danger_Man| wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system without
> rebooting the machine?
>
> I guess that I cant patch the kernel without compiling and rebooting the
> machine, so the only way
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:48:33 +0100, Joxean Koret said:
> In some cases you can hot-patch a kernel without rebooting the system,
> loading a module (lkm) with the patch inside.
Note that this is serious double-or-nothing here, because it's just *so*
easy to totally screw the pooch doing this, and
In some cases you can hot-patch a kernel without rebooting the system, loading a module (lkm) with the patch inside.On 11/7/05, Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man|
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system withoutrebooting the machine?I guess th
On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:05:11 PST, Alexander Sotirov said:
> On Linux you can just restart the patched service of course. Most package
> managers (i.e. dpkg and rpm) will do it for you after the update.
Note that rpm will only do that if the person who packaged the updated RPM
specified a 'postins
Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| wrote:
> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system without
> rebooting the machine?
If you are interested in Windows patches (I apologise for the market-speak):
http://www.determina.com/solutions/liveshield.html
On Linux you can just restart the
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:03:32 +1000, Stuart Low said:
> Well, if you have a customised kernel you'll probably find that your
> need to reboot with a new kernel becomes fairly low (Kernel level
> exploits are fairly rare, especially remote ones).
>
> If you've upgraded services probably the easiest
Hey,
> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system without
> rebooting the machine?
> I guess that I cant patch the kernel without compiling and rebooting the
> machine, so the only way is with iptables and keeping the daemons "fresh"?
Well, if you have a customised kernel y
Hello all,
Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the system without
rebooting the machine?
I guess that I cant patch the kernel without compiling and rebooting the
machine, so the only way is with iptables and keeping the daemons "fresh"?
Regards,
Carlos Silva,
http://osiri
