On Tue, 12 May 2020 11:05:55 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2020 10:30:04 Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 06:03:52 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2020 05:07:04 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 12 mai 2020 à 08:22 de keifer....@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? > > 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'm not trying to justify an automatic reboot; I'm just questioning the specific dire scenario you mention. > 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 Surely any "recovery database" used by a serious backup program is atomic! > 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. Celejar
