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Title : Find all services using libssl to restart after an OpenSSL update
Author : Remy van Elst
Date : 14-07-2015
URL : https://raymii.org/s/snippets/Find_all_services_using_libssl_to_restart_after_an_OpenSSL_update.html
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![Openssl][1]

When you update OpenSSL, the software that currently has the ssl libraries
loaded in memory do not automatically load the updated libraries. A full system
reboot resolves that problem, but sometimes that is not possible. This command
shows you all the software that has loaded the libraries, allowing you to
restart only those services. If you don't restart or reload after an update, the
software might still be vulnerable to issues that the update fixed.

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Make sure you have the `lsof` command installed. Your package manager probably
has this package.

Using the following command you get a list of services currently using libssl:

lsof | grep libssl | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

On a Directadmin shared hosting server this is the output:

directadm
exim
httpd
imap-logi
managesie
nrpe
php
pop3-logi
pure-ftpd
spamd

Not all the filenames are complete but you can fill those in. If you leave out
the last part of the command you can also see which specific library is in use:

lsof | grep libssl

Example output:

imap-logi 449 dovecot mem REG 202,1 539869 85375 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0
httpd 876 apache mem REG 202,1 539869 85375 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0
[...]
spamd 13513 root mem REG 202,1 444168 85398 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.1e

Here you can see some services using a different library, those still need a
restart.

_Update_. Tzu sent me an email with his command to find all updated libraries
and services using the old ones:

lsof | grep 'DEL.*lib' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u

[1]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/OpenSSL_logo_small.png
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