NAME

       needrestart - needrestart

DESCRIPTION

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

USAGE

       Usage:

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

       -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

ENVIRONMENT

       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.

AUTHOR

       Thomas Liske <thomas@fiasko-nw.net>

COPYRIGHT

       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.

UPSTREAM

       https://github.com/liske/needrestart