Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?
Hi.
On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 07:59:31AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 02:15:24AM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Output of systemctl list-timers | grep apt
> >
> > Thu 2021-06-03 20:29:30 GMT 9h left Thu 2021-06-03 09:18:00 GMT 1h 17min ago apt-daily.timer apt-daily.service
> > Fri 2021-06-04 06:51:16 GMT 20h left Thu 2021-06-03 09:18:00 GMT 1h 17min ago apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily-upgrade.service
>
> Yes, you posted this already.
>
> The point wasn't for you to copy and paste the output here and wait
> for someone to hand-hold you through the next step. The point was
> for you to read and understand the output yourself.
I'd like to add here that:
- apt-daily is written to respect APT::Periodic::* settings, and you
have those unset.
- in this very thread a possibility of a custom cron job that download
updates was excluded.
- therefore it's simply wrong to include in the result of "systemctl
list-timers" only "apt" timers and exclude everything else, since
your problem can lie in those excluded timers.
> 3) Calling "systemctl disable" only works for *services*,
That not how it works, actually.
systemctl disable can be used to disable any timer, but you have to
specify it explicitly. I.e.
systemctl disable apt-daily.timer
Running "systemctl disable" on a service that's called by timer should
do nothing indeed.
Reco
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