Unattended updates

[Ivan Krstic]

Kai Hendry wrote:
> Why doesn't Ubuntu consider doing unattended background updates?

krstic at aeryn:~> apt-cache show unattended-upgrades|grep -A10 Description
Description: Install security upgrades automatically
 This package will download and install security upgrades automatically
 and unattended. It will take care to only install packages from the
 configured origin and will check for conffile prompts.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop

krstic at aeryn:/etc> grep unatte cron.*/*
cron.daily/apt:#  - Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
cron.daily/apt:#    Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will
write
cron.daily/apt:#    a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades
cron.daily/apt:    unattended-upgrade

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