On Sun,31.May.09, 03:24:06, H.S. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,30.May.09, 13:19:32, H.S. wrote: > > > >> I also usually do an update and upgrade daily on this workstation. I > >> always know (from aptitude) if some processes need to be restarted. So I > > > > Huh, is there some feature of aptitude I missed? > > I think it calls dpkg-reconfigure as needed; I get the same ncurses > interface.
This is not what I meant. When a package is upgraded, the binary is replaced, but if the program is in use the copy in RAM is still the old one. Try running checkrestart after an upgrade, you'll see what I mean. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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