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Unattended upgrades on a Ubuntu Hardy server

June 9th, 2008 — Linux

I wanted to update my hardy servers automatically, so I could spend a little less time each week working on my servers. I've searched through the ubuntu wiki/documentation and I think using the unattended-upgrade package is the nicest alternative.

I installed two packages:

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  1. apt-get install unattended-upgrades update-notifier-common

And then edited two files:

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades

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  1. // Automaticall upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
  2. Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
  3. "Ubuntu hardy-security";
  4. "Ubuntu hardy-updates";
  5. };

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic

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  1. APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
  2. APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
  3. APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "1";
  4. APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

Now every day the server gets upgraded via /etc/cron.daily/apt

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