liske/needrestart
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Restart daemons after library updates.
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2015-03-03 · latest 2022-03-17
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needrestart – check which processes need to be restarted after library upgradesstory by pabs3 · 2022-03-17 · 0 comments
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…it's a sisyphean task. [1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debian-goodies/checkresta... [2] https://github.com/liske/needrestart
comment by ece · 2021-02-22 · in The modern packager’s security nightmare -
Why won't you use https://github.com/liske/needrestart to automatically restart services that need restarting after security upgrades and unattendedupgrades or a cron job for rebooting the whole machine after kernel upgrades/periodically?…
comment by marcobarco · 2019-05-11 · in Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach -
https://github.com/liske/needrestart is quite useful. It even has heuristics for updates to Python code, Java classes...
comment by Rondom · 2017-05-15 · in Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update -
…run outdated library code. There are tools which hook into the package manager which do this, like https://github.com/liske/needrestart
comment by catdog · 2017-02-16 · in Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March -
…check out `needrestart`---I've used this on Ubuntu and Debian, so I can't vouch for other distros. https://github.com/liske/needrestart
comment by bradfordboyle · 2015-03-03 · in No-reboot patching comes to Linux 4.0