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