Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.

From	Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway.
Date	2023-12-11 00:20 +0100
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:27:39 -0500
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> > 
> > Thanks. I will disable as well.  
> 
> Disable *what*?  Disabling a .service unit which is triggered by a
> timer event isn't going to stop it from running.

Sorry. I had already stopped the apt-daily-upgrade.timer, which
triggers the unattended upgrade service. (The couldn't give them
similar names to act as a mnemonic?) This refers to disabling the
unattended upgrade service.

> 
> *Masking* a .service would prevent it from running when requested by a
> timer event.
> 
> Apart from that, you'd have to remove the timer event.  However you do
> that.  I've never used systemd timers yet.

I *think* that's got it. Now to be sure I remember all this when it
comes time to allow automatic upgrades again.

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Thread

Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-10 17:00 +0100
  Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-12-10 17:20 +0100
    Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-10 19:10 +0100
      Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 21:20 +0100
        Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-10 21:50 +0100
          Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-12-10 22:00 +0100
            Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-10 22:20 +0100
              Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-12-10 23:30 +0100
                Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-11 00:20 +0100
                Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 03:50 +0100
  Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-12-10 18:00 +0100
    Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-12-10 19:20 +0100
  Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-12-10 18:30 +0100
    Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-12-10 22:10 +0100
      Re: Unattended Upgrades Ran Anyway. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-12-11 02:20 +0100

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