On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:31:22 +1100 Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was intuition rather than any knowledge I had - beyond the fact > that sometimes upgrade takes longer than normal. > > How to prevent a repeat is the real question. Upgrades and updates often require fetching across the network, which can induce network delays. For other reasons entirely, I prefetch my upgrades so they are on the computer before I start the upgrades. I put the following into a file in /etc/cron.d: # cron replaces the percent sign with a new line, so we escape it with a back slash. 5 3 * * * root sleep $( echo $((1 + RANDOM \% 1200)) ) ; /usr/bin/apt-get update > /dev/null && /usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-upgrade > /dev/null (Pasted with long lines; your mail client may mangle it.) You might do something similar before the automatic upgrades occur. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
