certain time to check for updates?

**badman35** · December 6th, 2012

I would very much like to setup a time to check for updates on all four of my ubuntu systems is their a way to do that? oh they all are 12.04.1

**MoebusNet** · December 7th, 2012

I am not aware of any way to do that with the GUI for Update Manager (renamed to Software Updater for 12.11).

However if you really need that functionality, have a look at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoWeeklyUpdateHowTo

Perhaps cron-apt and/or anacron would fill the bill for you. Read, research and back-up as always.

**Kirk Schnable** · December 8th, 2012

Originally Posted by MoebusNet

I am not aware of any way to do that with the GUI for Update Manager (renamed to Software Updater for 12.11).

However if you really need that functionality, have a look at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoWeeklyUpdateHowTo

Perhaps cron-apt and/or anacron would fill the bill for you. Read, research and back-up as always.

I'll second this. We are thinking about using cron-apt in the next Linux image we deploy at work.

**dcstar** · December 9th, 2012

Originally Posted by badman35

I would very much like to setup a time to check for updates on all four of my ubuntu systems is their a way to do that? oh they all are 12.04.1

/etc/cron.daily/apt is run at a random time during the day or straight after restart by anacron.

Move this script out of this folder and run it specifically at a certain time using a cron job.

**badman35** · June 7th, 2013

I still need help with this reason being is I have EXEDE satelite internet and I get free unmetered download time from midnite to five am and I want ubuntu to download its updates in that time frame and not when ever it wants to.