Subject: RE: upgrade ssh remotly without restarting system
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 15:09:40 AKST
Sorry Arthur and whoever,
I could have sworn I pasted that link in my post last night. Oh well ...
http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_sec/03192002/?idgnet
Jim Gribbin
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 15:17, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> > 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.. :-)
>
> It's been awhile, but at one point I made the mistake of installing a new
> version of openssl over a ssh link -- and the link was abruptly dropped.
> Could have been the make file, perhaps it was regenerating a local key,
> replaced the previous libs and did the 'ldconfig' thing. I don't remember
> exactly what it did that caused it, but I couldn't get back in until I went
> to the console and finished the ssh installation. Pain in the ass.
>
> --
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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>
>
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