Automatic security updates🔗

For all currently supported versions of Matillion ETL, this feature is disabled by default.

To enable automatic updates, enable the following service on the instance:

dnf-automatic-install.timer

Updates will run daily at 6:00am.

Checking the service status🔗

To check the status of the update service, use the following command:

systemctl status dnf-automatic-install.timer

If the service is running correctly, this will produce output similar to the following:

dnf-automatic-install.timer - dnf-automatic-install timer
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-install.timer; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2023-10-30 09:27:24 EDT; 54min ago
Trigger: Tue 2023-10-31 06:46:20 EDT; 20h left

Oct 30 09:27:24 [instance]: Started dnf-automatic-install timer.

Disabling the service🔗

You can disable the automatic update service with the following commands:

systemctl disable dnf-automatic-install.timer

systemctl stop dnf-automatic-install.timer

Changing the update time🔗

You can change the time at which the update service runs (6:00am by default). To do this:

Edit the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-install.timer.
Locate the line OnCalendar=*-*-* 6:00 and edit it to show the time you want the update to run, for example OnCalendar=*-*-* 18:00.
Save and exit the file.

Further configuration🔗

Further options for configuring the service can be found here.