From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: bluestar43@gmail.com, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Stumped by a version conflict.
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:57:21 -0400
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> On most modern Unixen it's perfectly possible for an existing process to
> continue to run an executable that's been deleted from the filesystem.
Indeed, but it's not generally a good thing. I'd recommend installing
something which checks for such things and sends a report when found
(uh, openvas is the first thing that comes to mind, but TIGER IDS might
catch these also).
Thanks,
Stephen
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