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[Xavier Bachelot <address@concealed>]

Le 20 juin 2025 07:48:14 GMT+02:00, David Carter <address@concealed> a écrit 
:
>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.
>

Sympa will be restarted on upgrade, check 'rpm -q --scripts sympa'

>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.
>
Will look at that. What is Restart set to in the default rpm unitfile ? Is 
that Always ?
(sorry, typing from a phone w/o acces to my linux machines)

Regards,
Xavier