Ubuntu Lucid - unattened upgrade

[Tom H]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:03 AM,  <ubuntu at cgi-net.ch> wrote:
>
> I'm administrating various ubuntu clients running ubuntu version 10.04
> LTS.
> Everything is working fine, except the unattented-upgrade feature.
>
> The was working for some time, but with the latest updates, it stopped
> working, because it asked me what I want to-do with the /etc/issue.net
> file.
> Please note that I have modified this file for legal purpose.
>
> I have no idea why the utility is asking me a questions and paused until I
> entered a response, since I'm running the upgrade using the following
> command:
> aptitude upgrade -y -t lucid-security

I recently copied /boot/grub/grub.cfg to another directory, restored
the maintainer's grub.cfg, and set up an "update-alternatives" for
grub.cfg so as not to be prompted at the next grub upgrade about
choosing between the local version and the maintainer's. None of the
alternatives that are set up by default are for config files so it
might not work; we'll see at the next grub upgrade (if I don't rebuild
this test box and forget to make this change...). You could do the
same for /etc/issue.net.

If this is for openssh-server, you could also change "Banner
/etc/issue.net" in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" to "Banner
/path/to/modified/issue.net".