Needrestart

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades.

Installation

# apt install needrestart

Syntax

# needrestart [-(v|q)] [-n] [-c <cfg>] [-r <mode>] [-f <fe>] [-u <ui>] [-(b|p)] [-kl]

Optionen

Option	Beschreibung
-v	be more verbose
-q	be quiet
-m <mode>	set level of technical details e (e)asy mode a (a)dvanced mode
-n	set default answer to 'no'
-c <cfg>	config filename
-r <mode>	set restart mode l (l)ist only i (i)nteractive restart a (a)utomatically restart ATTENTION: If needrestart is configured to run in interactive mode but is run non-interactive (i.e. unattended-upgrades) it will fallback to list only mode.
-b	enable batch mode
-p	nagios plugin mode: makes output and exit codes nagios compatible
-f <fe>	override debconf(7) frontend, sets the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable to <fe>
-u <ui>	use preferred UI package (-u ? shows available packages)
-k	only check for obsolete kernel
-l	only check for obsolete libraries

Umgebung

The following environment variables can be used to override the config file options. Command line parameters do always supersede them.

Umgebungsvariable	Beschreibung
NEEDRESTART_MODE	Change the configured restart mode (see also the -r parameter): (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically

When used with apt-get(8) needrestart supports the following additional environment variables:

Umgebungsvariable	Beschreibung
DEBIAN_FRONTEND	debconf(7) frontend to use, can also set using the -f parameter.
NEEDRESTART_SUSPEND	If set to a non-empty value the apt-get(8) hook will not run needrestart after installing or updating packages.

Links

Weblinks

1. https://github.com/liske/needrestart

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