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unattended-upgrades

pascalppascalp Member
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Hi everyone,

I have Debian Jessie on my home computer and on two VPS. My others VPS are on Debian Wheezy. I configured unattended-upgrades using this:

sudo apt-get -y install unattended-upgrades

Activate mail report to user launch

sudo sed -i "s#\/\/Unattended-Upgrade::Mail\s.*#Unattended-Upgrade::Mail \"launch\";#g" /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades to create the 20auto-upgrades script

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades

Then, I waited 2 days and it works only on my home computer. Because /etc/cron.daily/apt is executable on my home machine and not the VPS. I know how to change the mod but I wonder why it is like that. Is the package modified on VPS?

Also, my OVH vps do not have an /etc/cron.daily/apt file but a /etc/cron.daily/apt-disabled.

I did the same step on all machines

Thanks

Comments

  • 4n0nx4n0nx Member

    unattended-upgrades is the most unstable package I know... sometimes it works.. sometimes it doesn't... now I just use an apt-get cron -.-

  • GM2015GM2015 Member

    user@debian:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
    ....
    61 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
    Need to get 280 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 1,072 kB of additional disk space will be used.

    I use apt-get update on cron, but not upgrade. On my desktop, upgrade would probably break virtualbox and who know what else on servers.

    4n0nx said: apt-get cron

  • RalliasRallias Member

    GM2015 said: On my desktop, upgrade would probably break virtualbox and who know what else on servers.

    For me, the only thing I'm really concerned about it breaking is my nvidia driver. Everything else I can monitor solidly.

    Thanked by 1netomx
  • 4n0nx4n0nx Member

    GM2015 said: I use apt-get update on cron, but not upgrade. On my desktop, upgrade would probably break virtualbox and who know what else on servers.

    Has not broken anything at all for me in years ...

    (but of course I have backups..:p)

  • pascalppascalp Member

    well, I just tested my arubacloud vps, it is the only one that come with executable right by default (and OVH but i need to rename apt.disabled to apt. I need to set +x on ramnode,buyvm,dacentec,prometeus. I would like to know why the providers thinks it is better to disable that however

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