Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:27:39 -0500
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. I will disable as well.
>
> Disable *what*? Disabling a .service unit which is triggered by a
> timer event isn't going to stop it from running.
Sorry. I had already stopped the apt-daily-upgrade.timer, which
triggers the unattended upgrade service. (The couldn't give them
similar names to act as a mnemonic?) This refers to disabling the
unattended upgrade service.
>
> *Masking* a .service would prevent it from running when requested by a
> timer event.
>
> Apart from that, you'd have to remove the timer event. However you do
> that. I've never used systemd timers yet.
I *think* that's got it. Now to be sure I remember all this when it
comes time to allow automatic upgrades again.
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