Needing to get out of the house, I went on a short hike this evening on the Dogwood trail.
Continue reading post "#3199"Toby's Log page 30
I replaced my nearly eight year old car battery with an Interstate from Costco today.
Continue reading post "#3196"Christmas 2020
Merry Christmas to all. It has definitely turned out to be a white Christmas around here.
Continue reading post "Christmas 2020"My phone (Pixel 3a) has been dropping longer calls when using wi-fi calling over T-Mobile Home Internet.
Continue reading post "#3186"I spent some time playing with my Raspberry Pi’s this weekend.
Continue reading post "#3182"Custom logic for unattended upgrades reboot
The Ubuntu / Debian unattended-upgrades package has an option to automatically reboot as needed when it upgrades packages. It will do this without user input, at a chosen time. However, it doesn’t allow for any conditions beyond need and time. I found a need for more nuance recently, so I had to disable the built-in functionality and set up my own script on a cron job.
I spent a good bit of Saturday evening into the night buying the ingredients and baking the cheesecake for our Thanksgiving dinner Sunday.
Continue reading post "#3170"Sunday, my family had its deferred Thanksgiving dinner.
Continue reading post "#3168"I have determined that one cannot link a prepaid and postpaid T-Mobile account to have one login ID.
Continue reading post "#3163"Automatically deal with conf changes using unattended-upgrades
For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping the system and packages up to date. I recently noticed some of Cogneato’s servers showing packages needing to be updated for multiple days. When I looked in unattended-upgrades.log (in folder /var/log/unattended-upgrades/), I found the message “WARNING Package something has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually”. Basically, there was a change to a configuration file and it didn’t know how to handle it.