Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 07:38:59 +0530 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| <full-disclosure@csilva.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security updates without rebooting Message-ID: <84dead720511071808m1b0c59e5i49992b478d4724af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <436FD822.5000002@csilva.org> References: <436FD822.5000002@csilva.org>
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> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the > system without rebooting the machine? Application programs can be stopped and restarted at will; you can do this in a controlled way using the application's startup script in /etc/rc.d/ if that exists. Kernel patches generally require a reboot though, though some simple changes to some kernel modules could get by with a 'kldunload' followed by a 'kldload'. -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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