Automatic updates: a cautionary tale (tarneo.fr)

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Tl;dr: Automatic updates on my home server caused 8 hours of downtime of all of renn.es' docker services including email and public websites

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[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Permissive mode is definitely a life saver. My path was usually exercising the application in permissive mode for a few days then running the SELinux scanner on the log file to determine what roles needed to be setup. Same with the Debian/Ubuntu equivalent.

Good luck!

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