[Durham] finding daemons using old shared libraries

[Richard Mortimer]

All,

Back in the deepest darkest depths of my mind I remember coming across a 
program that will find all of the daemons that are running outdated 
versions of shared libraries. This is useful to find out what needs 
restarting after an upgrade. Does anyone remember the name of said 
program/script? I'm fed up of checking by hand (see below).

Thanks

Richard


Background:

When you upgrade shared libraries long running programs (daemons 
typically - but it may be other things) keep running the old library 
until restarted. This generally doesn't cause operational problems, 
although it might do if the program tries to load new/related libraries 
after the upgrade, but it does mean that you are still running with the 
old code.

It is relatively easy to find which programs are running old versions of 
libraries by looking in the /proc filesystem. For instance sshd on one 
of my boxes has the following in /proc/2834/maps. All of the files with 
(deleted) are because I just aplied an update to libc6 on this box. A 
new program will get the new version but the existing ones carry on 
using the old file. A restart of the daemon in question will fix things 
(but be careful that you don't restart something that depends on it).


sudo cat /proc/2834/maps
7f3ab76af000-7f3ab76bb000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 58535                      
/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab76bb000-7f3ab78ba000 ---p 0000c000 fc:00 58535                      
/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab78ba000-7f3ab78bb000 r--p 0000b000 fc:00 58535                      
/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab78bb000-7f3ab78bc000 rw-p 0000c000 fc:00 58535                      
/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab78bc000-7f3ab78c6000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 58537                      
/lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab78c6000-7f3ab7ac5000 ---p 0000a000 fc:00 58537                      
/lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ac5000-7f3ab7ac6000 r--p 00009000 fc:00 58537                      
/lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ac6000-7f3ab7ac7000 rw-p 0000a000 fc:00 58537                      
/lib/libnss_nis-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ac7000-7f3ab7acf000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 58531                      
/lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7acf000-7f3ab7cce000 ---p 00008000 fc:00 58531                      
/lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7cce000-7f3ab7ccf000 r--p 00007000 fc:00 58531                      
/lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ccf000-7f3ab7cd0000 rw-p 00008000 fc:00 58531                      
/lib/libnss_compat-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7cd0000-7f3ab7ce7000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 58540                      
/lib/libpthread-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ce7000-7f3ab7ee6000 ---p 00017000 fc:00 58540                      
/lib/libpthread-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ee6000-7f3ab7ee7000 r--p 00016000 fc:00 58540                      
/lib/libpthread-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ee7000-7f3ab7ee8000 rw-p 00017000 fc:00 58540                      
/lib/libpthread-2.9.so (deleted)
7f3ab7ee8000-7f3ab7eec000 rw-p 7f3ab7ee8000 00:00 0
7f3ab7eec000-7f3ab7eee000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 57357                      
/lib/libkeyutils-1.2.so
7f3ab7eee000-7f3ab80ed000 ---p 00002000 fc:00 57357                      
/lib/libkeyutils-1.2.so
...