I wanted to update my hardy servers automatically, so I could spend a little less time each week working on my servers. I’ve searched through the ubuntu wiki/documentation and I think using the unattended-upgrade package is the nicest alternative.
I installed two packages:
apt-get install unattended-upgrades update-notifier-common
And then edited two files:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
// Automaticall upgrade packages from these (origin, archive) pairs
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
"Ubuntu hardy-security";
"Ubuntu hardy-updates";
};
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "1"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
Now every day the server gets upgraded via /etc/cron.daily/apt
