Unattended linux updates

[lyematt at gmail.com (Matt Lye)]

I have done a similar thing under Ubuntu with no problems.

Under Linux its better not to use cron itself, but to use cron.daily,
cron.weekly, or cron.monthly as found in /etc.

If a machine is off when a cron is ment to run, it will not run, if its
added to one of the later crons it will run the next time its started.

For Ubuntu just add apt-get update && upgrade to one of the cron.<something>

-Matthew Lye

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Nathan Sweaney <NSweaney at tulsacash.com>wrote:

>  Dan McGinn-Combs said ?I used to have a Gentoo server auto-update itself.
> What a pain in the pah-tooey. I recently tried it with an ARCH linux box. No
> go. For some reason the PERL update wouldn't download and it kept bombing
> out.?
>
> *I?ve had similar experiences in the past as well.  That?s why I was
> wondering if anyone had actual experience with it working successfully in
> any particular distro.*
>
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> d4ncingd4n at gmail.com said ?Not to be a stick in the mud but, you shouldn't
> allow any mission-critical servers to auto-update. Updates should be tested
> prior to deployment. Otherwise all hell breaks loose the instant you patch
> the last box. It's a cruel law of nature.?
>
> *Agreed, but these aren?t mission-critical, just a pain when they go
> down.  And when I made your point to the customer, they asked why a box that
> ?might? go down would be worse than boxes that ?do? go down.*
>
>
>
> *Several people mentioned that croning the updates should work, and I?m
> working on a few testbeds, but I?ve still yet to find anyone that actually
> does it (and is happy) with distro X.*
>
> * *
>
> *- Nathan*
>
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