On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:03 PM, David Sastre Medina
<d.sastre.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:32:47PM +0100, A wrote:
> Hola, David,
>
> The file exists under that path, but I can't confirm if it's running since
> 'invoke-rc.d unattended-upgrades status' returns no output. The same for
> 'start' or 'stop' options, no output. I've checked that the proper symlinks
> to the file exist under "/etc/rc0.d" and "/etc/rc6.d".
>
> In addition, after checking the content of the file [1], I think that it
> would affect unattended-upgrades only if the option
> "Unattended-Upgrade::InstallOnShutdown" in
> "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades" would be "true". Which is not
> my case.
> Anyway, I would appreciate if you could provide a way to check if the
> "/etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades" is up and running.
Apparently, there's no such service, it's simply a hook to be run on
shutdown.
Have you checked if manually calling the program, e.g:
# unattended-upgrade --dry-run
works as expected?
Yes, I've tried it even adding the debug argument "-d" to your line above and the program works with no errors. The only error is that it doesn't run by itself, which would be great for an unattended task.
Does the package provide a cron job for scheduled unattended upgrades?
If not, you might need to write one yourself.
If it does, which I think it should, I can't spot it. I've checked "/etc/crontab" and inside "/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}" and I can't see any reference to unattended upgrades.
If you have to enable unattended-upgrades by yourself using a cron job, I don't see what's the point of the paragraph:
If you would prefer to enable it from the command line, run
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades".
inside "/usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README". If running the line above is not enough to enable the script, they should document all the steps to take.