kesuki's Journal: why does 'auto updating linux' cron script sound like a bad thing in english

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade|sleep 2 yes&&sleep 3 killall yes
if that isn't the correct way to autoupdate please inform me...

script

[JohnVanVliet]

not a great idea
for example if there is a flash update
and there have been MANY back to back every few days

you will need to agree to the CLOSED SOURCE [b] END USER AGREEMENT [/b]

for ubuntu there is a desktop gui widget
or

just manually check IF there are updates
but do not just blindly try to auto install them

look at them first

Re:

[kesuki]

it is a no ssh machine
it is headless

unattended-upgrades

[rwa2]

apt-get -y install unattended-upgrades

That should automagically take care of security upgrades regularly.

Then you only have to worry about the regular upgrades... or not.

Duplicate

[hcs_$reboot]

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