From: Bob Vickers (bobv@cs.rhul.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 11:37:07 EDT
3 replies already, 2 agreeing with me and one not. The one diagreeing
suggests that ipcs is part of the kernel, but I'm sure this is mistaken
(dupatch certainly tells you when it rebuilds the kernel).
The best comment was (as often) from Dr Thomas Blinn who says:
"If you are correct about the patch content (and I have no reason
to assume you are not), and if the file really got placed where
it needs to be (instead of having the file be delivered off to
the side with a one-time script to move it into place on the next
reboot), then you are correct, you don't need a reboot. There is
a lot of "boilerplate" in some of the patch kit procedures that
may be irrelevant in the real world."
I've checked that /usr/bin/ipcs got replaced, and there are no other files
in the inventory, so I think I must be OK in this situation. Of course,
other patches affect running daemons or even the kernel, so this approach
won't always be safe.
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