needrestart

Check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. More information: https://github.com/liske/needrestart.

• List outdated processes:

needrestart

• Interactively restart services:

sudo needrestart

• List outdated processes in verbose or quiet mode:

needrestart -v|q

• Check if the kernel is outdated:

needrestart -k

• Check if the CPU microcode is outdated:

needrestart -w

• List outdated processes in batch mode:

needrestart -b

• List outdated processed using a specific configuration file:

needrestart -c path/to/config

• Display help:

needrestart --help