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Yeah, there was also a deployable that ops almost forgot about, but I remembered. But even in C, you can inspect the symbol table of binaries. Unless they got s
by samus 5y ago
Yeah, there was also a deployable that ops almost forgot about, but I remembered. But even in C, you can inspect the symbol table of binaries. Unless they got stripped or optimized away, of course.
Edit: yes, deployables that nobody knows about and just sit there for years are a huge problem.
- mst 5y agoProvided the dependency is dynamically linked, you can find everything running against an old version of the .so after it's been updated by using the 'checkrestart' command. A combination of unattended-upgrades and periodic checkrestart runs makes my life as a debuntu admin much easier. Note: Yes, I know how many environments this doesn't apply to. But if one person whose environment it does apply to discovers the joy of 'checkrestart' as a result of this comment, it was still worth typing out :D