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checkrestart-1.0p1

help to find programs that need restarting after upgrade

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Description

checkrestart is a program designed to help to find processes that need restarting after upgrade. checkrestart walks thought entire file table of the system, searching for processes using node detached from filesystem. The typical use case is: - starts a long lived program. - later, upgrades your packages via pkg_add -u. - if the program is updated on disk, the running program is still the previous one (without security fixes for example). - checkrestart will tell you which processes belong to this category.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/checkrestart
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Sebastien Marie <semarie@kapouay.eu.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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