Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

[l0f4r0@tuta.io]

Hi,

27 mai 2021, 08:48 de rewefie@gmx.com:

> Before I provide you the answers, please note that I had removed/deleted the package called 50unattended-upgrades in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ before my original post in this mailing list.
>
What you call "package" is actually a simple file right?
> Secondly, according to a reply that I received prior to your response, I issued the command
>
> sudo systemctl diaable unattended-upgrades
>
OK, that will prevent the service from starting at next reboot.
But the service is still currently running right? Please type in a terminal:

systemctl status unattended-upgrades

> ls -al /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
>
> total 56
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 04:45 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Apr 23 04:45 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   49 Sep  8  2020 00aptitude
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   82 Sep  8  2020 00CDMountPoint
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   40 Sep  8  2020 00trustcdrom
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1018 May 12  2020 01autoremove
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3636 Apr 17 15:17 01autoremove-kernels
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   89 Apr 10 07:12 10periodic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  202 Mar 17  2019 20listchanges
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1040 Mar  2  2019 20packagekit
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2592 Jan 26  2019 50appstream
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  435 Jan 26  2019 60icons
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  182 Feb 26  2019 70debconf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   32 Apr 17 15:17 99synaptic
>

Can you provide us with the following command results?

cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00aptitude

> dpkg -l | grep -i unattended-upgrades
>
> ii  unattended-upgrades  1.11.2   all  automatic installation of security upgrades
>
It seems unattended-upgrades is still installed.

You confirm that you never ran something like the following?

sudo apt remove unattended-upgrades
sudo apt purge unattended-upgrades

What give you the next commands please?

apt-config dump | grep -i unatt
apt-config dump | grep -i APT::Periodic

NB: Have you rebooted and observed the same behavior since your posts?
Best regards,
l0f4r0