I have an Ubuntu server happily living it’s life as a NAS (and more) server which every now and then (if I forget to keep track of updates) it runs out of space on \/boot causing issues removing old releases or partial updates to be a bit of a problem. So how do we either turn on or off automatic upgrades?<\/p>\n
The configuration for this is stored in the file 20auto-upgrades<\/em>. So we can edit the file using<\/p>\n Within the file you’ll see something like this<\/p>\n Note: The “1” in the above are not True\/False but the minimum number of days. So we could change from “1” to run weekly by changing this value to “7”. A value of “0” will disable the feature.<\/em><\/p>\n You can create the file yourself or run the following command to create the file (it can be used to turn on\/off by running it on an existing file but that’s all)<\/p>\n If you want to change the frequency of checks for updates you’ll need to edit the 20auto-upgrades<\/em> manually (as already discussed).<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n AutomaticSecurityUpdates<\/a>. I have an Ubuntu server happily living it’s life as a NAS (and more) server which every now and then (if I forget to keep track of updates) it runs out of space on \/boot causing issues removing old releases or partial updates to be a bit of a problem. So how do we either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\nsudo nano \/etc\/apt\/apt.conf.d\/20auto-upgrades\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nAPT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";\r\nAPT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\nsudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nUnattendedUpgrades<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"