Automatic background updates

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:37:32 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> same in 9.10. Delete the comment sign (#) in front of the line and change
> the 0 to 1 (or 2 or 3 or ..). Now it reads:
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
> Now save, that is all.

Terrific! Thanks, I will try that.

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