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On 03/14/07 15:23, Vivek Khera wrote:
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> On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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>> 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.
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