Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades
On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f4r0@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer.bly@gmail.com:
> > Is there a way to configure it to automatically restart when a
> > package that needs to be restarted is upgraded?
>
> I think 'Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";' should do it
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. If I were you, I would
> check /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades as well because those are
> the 2 most important configuration files for unattended-upgrades.
>
> Best regards,
> l0f4r0
I can see a major disaster in the making, what if that reboot was
commanded in the middle of your nightly backup run, leaving your backup
program with a totally bogus database it cannot recover from?
Frankly the update shouldn't be allowed if your backup is actually
running. So it might be safer to schedule the update and reboot if
needed before the backup starts. That means one cron driven script does
it all in the sequence desired.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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