-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 15:23, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0600, Ed L. wrote: >>> Would I be correct in understanding that every pre-8.0 cluster >>> must be restarted in order for the OS changes to take affect?!? >> >> Possibly, I imagine many C libraries would cache the timezone data over >> a fork and might not motice the changes... > > You also need to restart cron, possibly syslog, etc. Much easier to > reboot than chase down every long running app just to update the date > library's cached zone info. Debian has the python script /usr/sbin/checkrestart which loos for such things. If you upgrade glibc, for example, checkrestart determines which processes need to be restarted. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF+F1VS9HxQb37XmcRArPCAKDEHVdS9AUZPTWTTWH3ry4KTrkUIQCfT2xn yiBAS9i70NVjwdUyLi61s08= =y0v0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
