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author | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2014-03-17 11:33:15 +0100 |
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committer | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2014-03-17 11:33:15 +0100 |
commit | 08b3244499d84979d15b558c3cafeb4e93de3e98 (patch) | |
tree | 015c0533427ea157021cc04110922b0eab549cfe | |
parent | 625ae89263675b56932cd149b73ad3671c6cdbb6 (diff) |
Update docs
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diff --git a/projects/whatmaps.mdwn b/projects/whatmaps.mdwn index 1d861f0..1d850d4 100644 --- a/projects/whatmaps.mdwn +++ b/projects/whatmaps.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ -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. - -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. [[!toc ]] |