libxml2 in Debian Lenny

Posted Jun 7, 2011 2:24 UTC (Tue) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: libxml2 in Debian Lenny by dtlin
Parent article: Security advisories for Monday

Even better, install debian-goodies and run checkrestart, which will give you a list of `/etc/init.d/foo restart` commands to run and a list of processes to kill that it couldn't associate with an init script. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything in the case of interpreted programs (eg Python/Ruby) and security issues in their dependencies.

libxml2 in Debian Lenny

Posted Jun 7, 2011 20:38 UTC (Tue) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (1 responses)

That's really neat. I wonder why this isn't run automatically after a command line apt-get/aptitude?

libxml2 in Debian Lenny

Posted Jun 8, 2011 3:32 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Not every system has it installed. Plus it should be the sysadmin's job to decide when/if daemons are restarted. And more probably the maintainer didn't think of doing that and if they did probably they don't have time to implement it.

You might want to file a bug/patch asking for debian-goodies to add an apt hook that runs checkrestart and prompts about restarting daemons.