needrestart
check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades
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needrestart
About needrestart
From Debian's package description
needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
Features:
- supports (but does not require) systemd
- binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers)
- tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby)
- tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC)
- tries to detect pending kernel upgrades
- tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs
- could be used as nagios check_command
- fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks
From Debian's description of the needrestart package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
perldpkggettext-baselibintl-perllibproc-processtable-perllibsort-naturally-perllibterm-readkey-perllibmodule-find-perlprocpsxz-utils
Recommends
libpam-systemdorsysvinit-coresystemdorlibimvirt-perl
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Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the needrestart package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the needrestart package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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