needrestart

check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

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

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