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[David Carter <address@concealed>]

On 19/06/2025 13:36, Widerski, Betty wrote:
> Fwiw we do not shut down Sympa or Postgres for patching. I schedule patching 
> after the nightly Postgres backup cron runs and before our 6am cron that 
> sends a test post to our privileged owners list.

Fair enough.

I've always been a bit paranoid about patching systems while they are 
live, possibly unduely so. It is nice to know that it should work. Of 
course Sympa itself will only pick up any updates when it is restarted.

For what it is worth:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/wwsympa.service
Restart=on-failure

seems to have made the shutdown process less likely to hang, so I will 
stick with that unless there turn out to be negative side effects.

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