needrestart - needrestart

       Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>

       2013 - 2022 (C) Thomas Liske [http://fiasko-nw.net/~thomas/]

       This  program  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,  or
       (at your option) any later version.

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

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

       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:

       DEBIAN_FRONTEND
              The 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.

       needrestart - needrestart

       https://github.com/liske/needrestart

needrestart                                       January 2015                                    NEEDRESTART(1)

       Usage:

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

       -v     be more verbose

       -q     be quiet

       -m <mode>
              set level of technical details

          e   (e)asy mode

          a   (a)dvanced mode

          u   (u)buntu mode, used to customized the behaviour in the APT hook. See /usr/share/doc/README.Ubuntu.

       -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

       -o     OpenMetrics output  mode:  output  information  that  can  be  scraped  by  OpenMetrics-compatible
              services.  Implies batch mode. By combining with any of `-l`, `-k` and `-w` you can decide whether
              the metrics will expose outdated libraries, kernel and microcode, respectively. Note that in order
              to list system-wide outdated libraries, needrestart needs to be run as root. When listing outdated
              libraries, a gauge-type metric  exposes  the  number  of  running  processes  with  such  outdated
              libraries.  When exposing kernel or microcode metrics, each one will expose a StateSet-type metric
              which indicates the current status. Kernel and microcode will also each expose an additional Info-
              type metric which informs of the versions of the current vs expected kernel or microcode.

       -f <fe>
              override debconf(7) frontend, sets the DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable to <fe>

       -t <seconds>
              When checking running  interpreter  processes,  allow  process  start  times  that  are  close  to
              timestamps  of files the interpreter uses, within this tolerance (default 2). The default value of
              2 seconds is best for checks of Linux hosts, on which system  limitations  prevent  more  accurate
              measurements  of  process start times. Values higher than 0 should prevent false positives yet may
              in extreme cases cause false negatives; values higher than 2 should not be necessary.

       -u <ui>
              use preferred UI package (-u ? shows available packages)

       By using one of the following options only the specified checks are performed:

       -k     check for obsolete kernel

       -l     check for obsolete libraries