Full Disclosure mailing list archives

Re: Security Updates Without Rebooting


From: Alexander Sotirov <asotirov () determina com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:05:11 -0800

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 patched service of course. Most package
managers (i.e. dpkg and rpm) will do it for you after the update.


Alexander Sotirov
_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/


Current thread: