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[Remco <remco47@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:55, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some security updates are not active until you reboot. Period. If there is a
> security problem in your kernel, you need a new kernel, and you need to boot
> it. We're done a lot of work to minimise the number of cases where that's
> important, but I'm not aware of any way to eliminate the occasional
> requirement of a reboot.

There is a way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice

And it's already in the repos:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ksplice

That's the kernel part. Some things, like changing a user's list of
groups, still require logging out and in again. But there's no
fundamental reason for a reboot.

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Remco