Re: [tlug] Chasing the GHOST in my machine

[Attila Kinali <attila@example.com>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:13:48 +0800
Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:

> My problem is that I administer servers that I rarely have a chance to
> reboot -- about once a year.  People are running processes that can
> run for weeks or months at a time.  A proposal to reboot is usually
> met with groans.  :-)  Does anyone know, under Ubuntu and using
> aptitude or apt-get, how I can update only those packages that do not
> require a reboot?  Or if it's bad to upgrade everything and ignore the
> suggestion to reboot for weeks or months?

You can use 
lsof +c 0 | awk '/libc-/ && /DEL/ { print $1 }' | sort -u
to find out which processes use an old libc and then restart those
individually.

			Attila Kinali


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