Automatic Updates

[Rytron]

Thanks schragge.

http://www.psychocats.net is a great site.

Would this code as mentioned in the above setup eventually cause an automatic upgrade i.e. from Xubuntu 12.10 to 13.04? I'd rather it just kept 12.10 updated and let me manually upgrade (or more likely install from fresh) to 12.10.

#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get autoclean

Here is my Software Sources - Updates tab:

[schragge]

No, this won't cause a release upgrade by itself. Moreover, even

apt-get dist-upgrade

won't, despite the name. But if you change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to another release, or just add lines for a newer release to this file then both upgrade and dist-upgrade will do a distribution upgrade. This is essentialy what command do-release-upgrade does: it changes /etc/apt/sources.list to point to another release, then runs apt-get to do the actual upgrade.

[Rytron]

Thank you schragge for clarifying that.

[Rytron]

There is this directory that I can drop the below autoupdate script into: /etc/cron.daily
What time of the day would that activate?

#!/bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get autoclean

[schragge]

Depends on whether you have anacron installed (you usually have as part of ubuntu-desktop).
Without anacron:

awk '/daily/{print "at "$2":"$1}' /etc/crontab

With anacron:

awk '/daily/{print "at "$2" minutes after boot"}' /etc/anacrontab

[Rytron]

$ awk '/daily/{print "at "$2":"$1}' /etc/crontab
at 6:25

$ awk '/daily/{print "at "$2" minutes after boot"}' /etc/anacrontab
at 5 minutes after boot

So I just need to install anacron? I presume the "6:25" without anacron is in the morning and would be of no use.

[schragge]

You already have it installed. The file /etc/anacrontab is installed by anacron.

[Rytron]

Thanks again schragge.

[Rytron]

Would the bash script also update PPA's?

I setup the script on a secondary PC and put the script in the folder '/etc/cron.daily'. No updates are happening though. I rebooted a few times. It is running Xubuntu 12.04. Anacron is installed it should run 5 minutes after boot but it isn't. Anyone have any ideas on the problem/solution?

[Slim Odds]

Would the bash script also update PPA's?

I setup the script on a secondary PC and put the script in the folder '/etc/cron.daily'. No updates are happening though. I rebooted a few times. It is running Xubuntu 12.04. Anacron is installed it should run 5 minutes after boot but it isn't. Anyone have any ideas on the problem/solution?

'apt-get update' updates from ALL repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list

How do you know what it's doing? Are you checking log files?