On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de [email protected]: > > > > 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?
You are trying to justify an automatic reboot, very bad idea. Granted, most such would be ok, and will leave a requester popup to advise the admin, doing its normal routine in the meantime. I happen to use amanda to backup 5 machines here, but any backup suite that maintains a recovery database is going to be in deep doodoo if it gets rebooted in the middle of a backup. I probably do better than most but a worst case scenario here if everything in place works, would only lose me that days data because I do keep separate copies of that data. But 60 days of that is 33GB, the biggest single entry in my nearly 70 items long list. > > 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
