needrestart 0.7

Posted on 2014-04-14 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.

needrestart supports but does not require systemd (available since v0.6). If systemd is not available or does not return a service name needrestart uses hooks to identify the corresponding …


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needrestart 0.6

Posted on 2014-04-07 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.

needrestart supports but does not require systemd (available since v0.6). If systemd is not available or does not return a service name needrestart uses hooks to identify the corresponding …


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needrestart 0.5

Posted on 2014-01-02 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package. It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Supported package manager backends (for init script retrieval):

  • dpkg
  • rpm
  • pacman

Changes in 0.5

  • Ignore mapped files in /tmp.
  • Handle …

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needrestart 0.4

Posted on 2013-11-28 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package. It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Supported package manager backends (for init script retrieval):

  • dpkg
  • rpm
  • pacman

Changes in 0.4:

  • Fix spelling:
    • typo in debconf template …

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needrestart 0.3

Posted on 2013-09-14 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package. It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Supported package manager backends (for init script retrieval):

  • dpkg
  • rpm
  • pacman

Changes in 0.3:

  • Fix typo reported by Patrick Matthäi …

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needrestart 0.2

Posted on 2013-04-02 in Projects • Tagged with Linux, Debian, Perl, needrestart • 1 min read

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package. It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Supported package manager backends (for init script retrieval):

  • dpkg
  • rpm
  • pacman

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