RE: upgrade ssh remotly without restarting system


Subject: RE: upgrade ssh remotly without restarting system
From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 08:01:15 AKST


>Jim Gribbin writes:
> > An interesting article on upgrading ssh from a remote workstation
> > without rebooting the entire system.
>
>To which Arthur responds:
> You didn't say where you read that.
>
> In any event, I've had to do that myself, including upgrading
> openssl. If you're running ssh from inetd it's pretty easy, just
> use 'at' or 'nohup' to run a script containing
> 'cd $SSL; make install ; cd $SSH ; make ; make install'
> or the like. Obviously, you'll want to configure both packages
> beforehand (and make openssl) to make sure there's no new
> dependencies to worry about.
>
> Not a perfect solution, but it works.

Funny -- I just upgraded openssh and openssl right on top of my ssh
session without interruption. The beauty of *nix, keeping my in-use library
and program in memory even though i've overwritten it with a new version.

Of course, this doesn't work with the win32 port.. :-)



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