name : README.needrestart Files located in /etc/needrestart/restart.d are used for services requiring a special procedure for restarting instead of systemctl/service command. Needrestart uses executable files matching the complete service names. If the host uses systemd the service names have '.service' as a suffix (dbus vs. dbus.service). Needrestart uses the systemctl/service command if no executable file is available to override the default behavior. The environment variable NR_VERBOSE will be set to '1' if the executable should be verbose.