Re: [tlug] Chasing the GHOST in my machine

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 01/30/2015 05:51 PM, Attila Kinali wrote:
> 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.

How do you do it for statically linked executables ;)

Edward