A package for automatically downloading and applying package upgrades, particularly security patches.
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Questions tagged [unattended-upgrades]
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Unattended upgrades status?
Does anyone know if it is possible to determine the status of an unattended upgrade? Is it possible to find out which packages are being installed or where we are in the process?
I appreciate the benefit of unattended upgrades, but they can be…
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How can I force unattended-upgrades to run on demand?
This is probably an easy thing to do but I found no answers while googling for it.
I have unattended-upgrades installed and running successfully for the past few months. It will run again tonight - but I want to run it right now.
Is there a simple…
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What is the difference between security, updates, proposed and backports in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades?
I see the following lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. But I'm not able to find the man page for them. Could anybody point me the detailed document for each of them? Thanks.
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
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How to customize unattended-upgrades notification emails?
Is there any way to customize the unattended-upgrades results mail in ubuntu?
The current configuration in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file -
// Send email to this address for problems or packages upgrades
// If empty or unset then no…
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Best practices for keeping EC2 Ubuntu machines updated
Following the recent heartbleed vulnerability of OpenSSL, I would like to keep my EC2 machines updated on a regular basis. The naive approach would be setting an hourly cron job for security updates (sudo apt-get update && sudo…
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How to verify that unattended-upgrades are enabled?
Let us assume you just logged via SSH into a server running Ubuntu.
Is there a simple command to find out whether unattended-upgrades are enabled and will install security critical updates automatically?
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Can we extend the repositories for which unattended upgrades are enabled?
The usual advice regarding enabling unattended upgrades for some repository is to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and manually add the appropriate Origin values. I wonder whether one can add to this list by specifying multiple…
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What is the difference between apt-daily.timer and apt-daily-upgrade.timer
I can't find what is the difference between these 2 files.
What does apt-daily.timer and apt-daily-upgrade.timer trigger?
My guess is that:
apt-daily.timer trigger apt update
And
apt-daily-upgrade.timer trigger apt -y upgrade
but I can't find it…
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Why do I get duplicate e-mails from unattended-upgrades?
I have no idea where to look for this. Since the upgrade from Ubuntu Server 14.04 to 16.04 I consistently get every single e-mail from unattended-upgrade exactly twice. They have the same content and headers and even the same message ID but one is…
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unattended-upgrades runs twice every day but never installs anything
Upon logging in to system it is clear that a large number of upgrades are available:
258 packages can be updated.
117 updates are security updates.
Output from sudo apt full-upgrade confirms it:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency…
Alistair Buxton
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Cannot get unattended-upgrades to work
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS and I am currently trying to get unattended-upgrades to work. So far I followed this documentation: 12.04-serverguide-automatic-updates
I installed the package: apt-get install unattended-upgrades
I edited the…
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unattended-upgrade does not update security updates
I run unattended-upgrade with Allowed-Origins set to security and nothing listed in the blacklist. However when I run unattended-upgrade -d, the log lists a blacklist with all my security updates listed. No packages are updated. What could I be…
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unattended-upgrades always gives apt-key net-update error
I am running an Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Server and I have setup unattended-upgrades to be verbose.
Now I always see an error from "apt-key net-update".
Issuing the command manually gives no message at all but the return code is 1.
Issuing "apt-key…
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Set unattended-upgrades non-interactively
In Ubuntu 16/18 I would like to set unattended-upgrades to yes non-interactively.
I only know about dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades and it isn't.
Is this possible and how?
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How to upgrade specific package using unattended-upgrades?
I would like to configure auto update some packages using unattended-upgrades. But I couldn't find the why to specific only the packages I want. The /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file have a Blacklist and Allow-Origin option which update…
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