Security updates without rebooting

[Joseph Koshy]

> Can someone explain how to apply security patches on the
> system without rebooting the machine?

Application programs can be stopped and restarted at will;
you can do this in a controlled way using the application's
startup script in /etc/rc.d/ if that exists.

Kernel patches generally require a reboot though, though
some simple changes to some kernel modules could get by with
a 'kldunload' followed by a 'kldload'.

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