Automatic background updates

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm hoping to not have to use the GUI at all.

There seems to be some skeletal stuff in
/etc/cron.daily/apt

... such as:

#  APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
#  - Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
#    every n-days (0=disabled)
#    Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write
#    a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades

But I don't know how this works or how to "activate" it...?

This is on 9.04, BTW...

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