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? > 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