Automatic background updates

[Steve]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:41:25 -0000, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there an "official" way to do this, rather than just using cron to
> schedule a script that says something like...
>
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get upgrade -y
>
> ...?
>
There’s a setting for install security updates with out confirmation in  
Update Manager > Preferences along with download in background, or am I  
missing something.
-- 
Steve