1NEEDS-RESTARTING(1) dnf-plugins-core NEEDS-RESTARTING(1)
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6 needs-restarting - redirecting to DNF needs-restarting Plugin
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8 Check for running processes that should be restarted.
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11 dnf needs-restarting [-u] [-r]
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14 needs-restarting looks through running processes and tries to detect
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16 given process started. Such processes are reported by this tool.
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18 Note that in most cases a process should survive update of its binary
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25 All general DNF options are accepted, see Options in dnf(8) for
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39 2020, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+
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444.0.18 Oct 08, 2020 NEEDS-RESTARTING(1)