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Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:11:04 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Is there a good way to do what I want (which is to avoid missing an
>> automatic upgrade and then not rebooting for months)?
>
> If you are using the unattended-upgrades package, you can set it to
> send you emails. Those emails will let you know which packages are
> upgraded, and if a reboot is required. See
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.
>
> Aside from your use case, I highly recommend doing so if your hard
> drive is encrypted.
>
I don't use that but I do something similar. Does unattended-upgrades
email me each day until I reboot? If so then I should take a look at
switching to use it. (I've been doing it 'my way' since potato - so
change is hard ;-) )

Tim.

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telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-10 23:20 +0100
  Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 04:40 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-11 07:00 +0100
      Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 19:10 +0100
        Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 09:10 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-12-11 22:00 +0100
  Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-12-12 02:30 +0100
    Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-12 08:20 +0100
      Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-12-12 16:20 +0100

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