On Friday 24 March 2017 17:34:58 Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Lisi Reisz [2017-03-24 17:13:21Z] wrote:
> > On Friday 24 March 2017 09:56:23 didier gaumet wrote:
> >> # dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
> >
> > This is what I had missed! I have now run it.
>
> The command creates file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades:
>
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
>
> And that makes unattended-upgrade run daily. (As I wrote in my earlier
> message.)
>
> Actually it's the cron (Debian 8) or systemd unit
> apt-daily.{timer,service} (Debian 9) that runs a script that in turn
> will run unattended-upgrade if those APT::Periodic settings are set.
Yes, thank you Teemu for your advice.
Lisi
