On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:03 PM, David Sastre Medina <
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:32:47PM +0100, A wrote:
> > Hola, David,
> >
> > The file exists under that path, but I can't confirm if it's running
> since
> > 'invoke-rc.d unattended-upgrades status' returns no output. The same for
> > 'start' or 'stop' options, no output. I've checked that the proper
> symlinks
> > to the file exist under "/etc/rc0.d" and "/etc/rc6.d".
> >
> > In addition, after checking the content of the file [1], I think that it
> > would affect unattended-upgrades only if the option
> > "Unattended-Upgrade::InstallOnShutdown" in
> > "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades" would be "true". Which is not
> > my case.
> > Anyway, I would appreciate if you could provide a way to check if the
> > "/etc/init.d/unattended-upgrades" is up and running.
>
> Apparently, there's no such service, it's simply a hook to be run on
> shutdown.
> Have you checked if manually calling the program, e.g:
>
> # unattended-upgrade --dry-run
>
> works as expected?
>
Yes, I've tried it even adding the debug argument "-d" to your line above
and the program works with no errors. The only error is that it doesn't run
by itself, which would be great for an unattended task.
>
> Does the package provide a cron job for scheduled unattended upgrades?
> If not, you might need to write one yourself.
>
If it does, which I think it should, I can't spot it. I've checked
"/etc/crontab" and inside "/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}" and I
can't see any reference to unattended upgrades.
If you have to enable unattended-upgrades by yourself using a cron job, I
don't see what's the point of the paragraph:
If you would prefer to enable it from the command line, run
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades".
inside "/usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README". If running the line
above is not enough to enable the script, they should document all the
steps to take.
