On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:01:45PM +0100, A wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been trying to make *unattended-upgrades* working on Wheezy with no > success so far. > > The steps I have followed are: > > - Install *unattended-upgrades* > - Enable it > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades > > - Uncomment the following lines in > */etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades* > > "o=Debian,n=wheezy"; > "o=Debian,n=wheezy-updates"; > "o=Debian,n=wheezy-proposed-updates"; > "o=Debian,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security"; > > - Wait two days > > > It's supposed to run every day, but it did nothing by the time. I've > checked its logs at */var/log/unattended-upgrades/* and apt history log at > */var/log/apt/history.log* but nothing happened there since the > installation. > > Is there any step I am missing to enable it? After reading the doc under > */usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README*, I think that the above are the > only ones you have to follow to get it running. > By the way, I use to shut down this box every night and turn it on again in > the morning, so I installed *anacron* to prevent *cron* from missing its > *cron.daily* jobs if the machine is off. > > Thanks in advance for your support.
From the package's file list¹, I see there's a service script: /etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades is it running and configured to be run on boot? ¹ http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/unattended-upgrades/filelist -- Primary key fingerprint: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56
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