Turning off automatic update on Server 9.04

[simplified]

Hi All

I'm having a bit of a problem in that I must recompile the modules for VMWare every time my Ubuntu Server runs the automatic update. This always seems to happen when I need the server the most so I need to turn off automatic updates so I can then do them manually and have a bit more control over when I can sort out VMWare.

I've looked at modifying the file /etc/cron.daily/apt but to be honest it's a bit above my skill level; there is a post that advises you change the file but doesn't specify exactly what you need to change. I wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction?

TIA, Simplified

[t3r0]

Hi,

in file:

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

comment out update update you don't want to upgrade automatically
eg:

// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
//        "Ubuntu jaunty-security";
//      "Ubuntu jaunty-updates";
};

- Tero

[jondkent]

I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for the answer

[simplified]

Hi Tero

Thank you for that, I've made the change.

Your help is most appreciated!

Cheers, Simplified

[rtotheototheb]

Hi t3r0,

Thanks for the simple and clear answer.

[danger89]

thx

[dcstar]

Hi All

I'm having a bit of a problem in that I must recompile the modules for VMWare every time my Ubuntu Server runs the automatic update. This always seems to happen when I need the server the most so I need to turn off automatic updates so I can then do them manually and have a bit more control over when I can sort out VMWare.
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Or: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1418747

[yngens]

What about just running:

sudo apt-get remove unattended-upgrades

?

[loconut]

What about just running:

sudo apt-get remove unattended-upgrades

?

That would be a bad idea, at least on Desktop. It may be ok on Server.

root@aurora:/etc/init.d# apt-get remove unattended-upgrades
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
python-lxml gir1.2-unique-3.0 language-pack-kde-en kde-l10n-engb
language-pack-kde-en-base
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
aptdaemon apturl landscape-client-ui-install language-selector
language-selector-gnome nautilus-share python-aptdaemon
python-aptdaemon-gtk python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
python-aptdaemon.gtkwidgets python-aptdaemon.pkcompat
python-software-properties sessioninstaller software-center
software-properties-gtk ubufox ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-tweak
ubuntuone-control-panel-common ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk
ubuntuone-control-panel-qt ubuntuone-installer unattended-upgrades
xul-ext-ubufox
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 24 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
After this operation, 15.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
root@aurora:/etc/init.d#



By the way, I found this answer on my own:
root@aurora:/etc/init.d# update-rc.d unattended-upgrades disable
update-rc.d: warning: unattended-upgrades stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 6)
Disabling system startup links for /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades ...
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades ...
/etc/rc0.d/K20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc1.d/K20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc2.d/S20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc3.d/S20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc4.d/S20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc5.d/S20unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc6.d/K20unattended-upgrades
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades ...
/etc/rc0.d/K20unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc1.d/K20unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc6.d/K20unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc2.d/K80unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc3.d/K80unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc4.d/K80unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades
/etc/rc5.d/K80unattended-upgrades -> ../init.d/unattended-upgrades

[nothingspecial]

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