Updating to memcached 1.4.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3Edit

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Updating libevent

Will take the opportunity to update libevent as well, from the currently installed 1.4.9 to the latest 1.4.12.

$ wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
$ cd libevent-1.4.12-stable
$ ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib
$ make
$ make verify
$ sudo make install

For reasoning on why we install into /usr/lib/ see the notes on my initial installation: "Installing memcached 1.2.6".

Updating memcached

$ wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
$ cd memcached-1.4.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install

Restarting the daemon

In my case I use monit to handle memcached — monit automatically handles restarting any other services which may depend on the restarted service — so I restarted like this:

$ sudo monit restart memcached-rails

And then checked the status of all monitored processes using:

$ sudo monit status

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