Package: needrestart (3.6-4+deb12u2) [security]

[ Source: needrestart  ]

check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

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

Other Packages Related to needrestart

• dep: binutils

  GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities

• dep: dpkg (>= 1.16.0)

  Debian package management system

• dep: gettext-base

  GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system

• dep: libintl-perl

  Uniforum message translations system compatible i18n library

• dep: libmodule-find-perl

  module to find and use installed Perl modules

• dep: libproc-processtable-perl

  Perl library for accessing process table information

• dep: libsort-naturally-perl

  Sort naturally - sort lexically except for numerical parts

• dep: libterm-readkey-perl

  perl module for simple terminal control

• dep: perl

  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

• dep: xz-utils

  XZ-format compression utilities

• rec: libpam-systemd

  system and service manager - PAM module

  or sysvinit-core

  System-V-like init

• rec: systemd

  system and service manager

  or libimvirt-perl

  Perl module for detecting several virtualizations

• sug: iucode-tool

  Intel processor microcode tool

• sug: needrestart-session

  check for processes need to be restarted in user sessions

  or libnotify-bin

  sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon (Utilities)

• enh: intel-microcode

  Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

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