Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades
On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> 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?
That would be unfortunate - but surely a serious backup program would
be designed to be robust enough that ending up "with a totally bogus
database it cannot recover from" should never happen? What if you
have some sort of system crash during a backup? Do you have a specific
backup system in mind?
> 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
Celejar
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