Re: Question on Unattended Upgrades

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Hmmm, I looked in man apt.conf and for the periodic options it said to
look in /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily and that script does not
mention the option you mentioned.  Is there some other place I should
look for its description?


On Tue, 12 May 2020 16:47:33 -0400,
David Wright wrote:
> 
> On Tue 12 May 2020 at 15:14:51 (-0400), John Covici wrote:
> > To get back to the topic -- I have unattended updates set supposedly,
> > but they do nothing.
> > 
> > Here are the relevant files from my apt.conf.d directory
> > 
> > 20-auto-upgrades
> > apt::periodic::unattended-upgrade "1";
> > 
> > Here is my 50-unattended-upgrades
> > […]
> 
> You appear to have removed the line
> 
>     APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> 
> from 20-auto-upgrades. Is something else responsible for updating them?
> 
> Also, I assume that there's no 20auto-upgrades-disabled present.
> 
> Disclaimer: I don't use the package, so I'm only looking at the
> /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/ files which probably get modified
> during installation.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 

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