reexecuting prelink

[charlescurley at charlescurley.com]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:58:01AM -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
> This is great, but I have a little question: What happen if I shutdown
> my computer while this tasks are executing?
> 
> I mean, there are several tasks scheduled to run daily, slocate.cron is
> runing right now for example.
> 

You are OK if you do a graceful shutdown: "shutdown -h now". This will
send a signal to all processes, and they will in turn shut down
gracefully. A partial run of prelink is harmless. If a library is not
prelinked, the normal linking process kicks in. Similarly for locate
and other cron jobs.

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