With respect to "unattended-upgrades blocking other cron.daily scripts via
shutdown -r" I reflected:
Now what would a "correct" or "better" behavior be?
I suggest to trigger an asynchronous shutdown, that is *not*
to wait for `shutdown -r $TIME` to come back so that whatever
daily menial taks are scheduled via /etc/cron.daily are able
to be executed.
What about the idea of using
echo "shutdown -r now" | at $TIME
instead of directly calling
shutdown -r now
Pro:
* async execution. unattended-update can finish it's stuff and
the rest of cron.daily finishes correctly
* consoles won't be flooded with repeat "Systeme will be going
doing in XX hours"
Con:
* does care have to be taken that unattended-upgrade won't re-run
while it wants the system to reboot?
* behavior change (this should be triggering a major semver change...)
* this could be worked around with yet another config option
(UseAtInstead=True)
* users on the system won't be warned of the system going down in
XX hours
What do you think?
*t
