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authorGuido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>2014-03-17 11:33:15 +0100
committerGuido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>2014-03-17 11:33:15 +0100
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-After a security updrate of a library one needs to restart all programs that make use of this library in order for the security update to become effective. [[whatmaps]] takes a package name and looks (on Linux systems) in */proc/pid/maps* for processes that map shared objects contained in a certain package. It then looks for the corresponding processes to find the services that need to be restarted.
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-It currently supports Debian and Fedora but might also work well on other Debian or RPM based distributions. The current release is 0.0.3.
+After a security update of a library one needs to restart all programs that
+make use of this library in order for the security update to become effective.
+[[whatmaps]] takes a package name and looks (on Linux systems) in
+*/proc/pid/maps* for processes that map shared objects contained in a certain
+package. It then looks for the corresponding processes to find the services
+that need to be restarted.
+
+It supports more complex scenarious like package A needing a restart of package
+B or blacklisting services on a global or per package basis by (for now)
+internal lists and dicts.
+
+It currently supports Debian and Fedora but might also work well on other
+Debian or RPM based distributions. The current release is 0.0.3.
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