Comment on PSA: unattended-upgrades restarted nginx in the middle of my stream
Guiorgy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I mean, unattended upgrades has it’s own config file where you can specify when to schedule a reboot (when needed), which you’d usually do in off-hours like 2 AM your local time, so changing the Systemd unit activation time seems like the wrong fix.
ultimaluz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
yeah exactly, no reboot, it was needrestart restarting nginx and postgres after the systemd update. you’re right that the timer is kind of the blunt fix, the cleaner one is probably telling needrestart to only list instead of restart ($nrconf{restart} = ‘l’ in needrestart.conf), or excluding nginx from it. I went with the timer because I still want things restarted, just not while I’m live