Linux Unattended Upgrades: Patch Automatically, Reboot Deliberately
unattended-upgrades can install eligible APT updates without waiting for an administrator. It cannot decide whether a service may restart during business hours,…
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unattended-upgrades can install eligible APT updates without waiting for an administrator. It cannot decide whether a service may restart during business hours,…
Choosing between cron and a systemd timer is not a contest between an old tool and a modern one. It is a…
btrfs scrub reports Uncorrectable when it detected a bad read but could not repair that block from another verified copy. That result…
df says a Linux filesystem is nearly full, yet du cannot find enough visible files to explain the used space. That contradiction…
Two clocks make this boot incident confusing. A primary NIC can obtain an address within seconds, yet systemd-networkd-wait-online.service can remain active until…
Deleting one ZFS snapshot does not mean every block visible through that snapshot becomes free. OpenZFS releases only blocks whose last remaining…
TcpExtListenOverflows rose by 4,812 during a five-minute traffic burst. The kernel log mentioned a possible SYN flood, yet the packet capture showed…
DNS still resolves. The remote API answers from another machine. Existing sessions remain healthy, yet a Linux application logs EADDRNOTAVAIL or Cannot…
An ext4 filesystem that suddenly becomes read-only is usually protecting data after the kernel detected a filesystem or storage error. Do not…
Two clocks run during Linux md RAID recovery: the array must regain redundancy, while production requests still have latency objectives. The safe…
A Dovecot server can reject new mail with No space left on device while df -h still reports gigabytes free. Maildir stores…
An interface can remain UP, the process can keep listening, and Linux can still discard receive packets before they reach the application…
Low host CPU utilization does not prove that a container has CPU time available. A cgroup v2 limit in cpu.max is enforced…
Stale file handle is an identity error, not a generic network outage. The NFS client is presenting a server-issued handle for a…
One SSH session remains responsive, a database connection keeps serving queries, yet every fresh health check times out. That combination can look…
An LVM thin pool can fail while a filesystem still reports free space, because pool data blocks, pool metadata, volume-group extents and…
Two services can end with the same SIGKILL, yet require opposite repairs. A global kernel OOM event means the host could not…
Clock drift rarely introduces itself as “clock drift.” It arrives as a certificate that is “not yet valid,” an expired login token…
start-limit-hit is not the reason your application failed. It means systemd observed too many start attempts inside the unit's configured interval and…
A WireGuard tunnel can show a recent handshake, pass a small ping, and still fail when it carries a web page, file…
CPU steal time is the share of time a virtual CPU was ready to work but could not run because the hypervisor…