NAME

       ksplice-apply - Apply an on-disk Ksplice update to the running kernel

SYNOPSIS

       ksplice-apply [OPTIONS] {UPDATE_TARBALL | UPDATE_TREE}

DESCRIPTION

       ksplice-apply takes as input a Ksplice update, as generated by ksplice-create(8), and it applies the
       update to the running binary kernel.  The update may be supplied in the form of a tarball or an unpacked
       tree.

       The update is required to have been generated for the running kernel's version.

OPTIONS

       --debug Applies the update with debugging output enabled.  Recommended only for debugging.

       --debugfile=filename
               Sets the location where debugging output should be saved.  Implies --debug.

       --partial
               Applies  the  update  only  to those modules which are loaded.  Any modules patched by the update
               that are not loaded are ignored (without this option, Ksplice aborts if any  modules  patched  by
               the update are not loaded).

       --raw-errors
               Print  only  raw  error  information  designed to be machine-readable on standard error (standard
               output is still intended to be human-readable).  If ksplice-apply fails due to an error from  the
               Ksplice  kernel  modules,  the first line on standard error will be a Ksplice abort code (see the
               Ksplice source code for documentation on these codes).  Further lines will vary depending on  the
               abort  code.   If  ksplice-apply  fails  for any other reason, it will output the line "OTHER\n",
               followed by a human-readable failure message, to standard error.

SEE ALSO

       ksplice-create(8), ksplice-view(8), ksplice-undo(8)

BUGS

       Please report bugs to <devel@ksplice.com>.

AUTHORS

       Jeff Arnold, Anders Kaseorg, and Tim Abbott

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2009  Ksplice, Inc.

       This is free software and documentation.  You can redistribute and/or modify it under the  terms  of  the
       GNU General Public License, version 2.

Ksplice v0.9.9                                     2014-01-19                                   KSPLICE-APPLY(8)