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Sevenzzz
Asked: 2024-09-20 23:10:13 +0800 CST

Prevent Unattended Upgrades from restarting service

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Is it possible to prevent unattended-upgrades from restarting specific services?

A critical systemd service in production sometimes is restarted when a dependency is upgraded by unattended-upgrades which causes data-loss, what is the correct way to disable service restarts?

apt

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  1. Best Answer

    Rather than haywire Unattended Upgrades, stop using that service in production systems. Use your maintenance windows for their intended purpose.

    Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

    Change the following line to "0"

    APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";   <--- Change to "0" to disable
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