Re: [GENERAL] pg on Debian servers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Morgan Lloyd
Subject Re: [GENERAL] pg on Debian servers
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Msg-id ou7c1o$d2a$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] pg on Debian servers  (Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be>)
List pgsql-general
On 11/11/17 16:45, Jan Claeys wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 14:23 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I think that the "preventing upgrades" route is the one to follow,
>> since inhibiting the restart would obviously present a risk that
>> something loaded dynamically could get out of step. As an at least
>> temporary hack I've disabled unattended updates using
>>
>> # systemctl disable unattended-upgrades.service
> 
> Unattended-upgrades is configurable and allows whitelisting package
> origins, as well as blacklisting packages so that they never get
> upgraded automatically (you can still upgrade them manually, of
> course).
> 
> See /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades (the default version of
> that file includes documentation as comments).
> 
> Also see the unattended-upgrade(8) manpage, and the on/off switch in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

Thanks Jan, noted. I was, of course, working to a fairly traditional 
priority: get things running again, whine for a few hours, and only 
later implement a proper fix :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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