Thanks Charles for your reply. Your suggestion "apt purge unattended-upgrades" implies that my deletion/removal of the file 50unattended-upgrades is insufficient. Is that correct?
I shall feedback to you if your suggestion works. By the way, is there a method to suppression notification of new software and/or security updates? (I assume that if I can receive notifications of software/security updates, it means that my OS is communicating with Debian servers in the background, without my knowledge. I don't like that.) Marcello > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 3:14 AM > From: "Charles Curley" <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> > To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > > On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:25:01 +0200 > Stella Ashburne <rewe...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > 2. I deleted the file 50unattended-upgrades located > > in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ > > > > In spite of the above two actions, Debian 10.9 still downloads > > software and security updates for me automatically in the background. > > Could someone help me with a fix that really works? > > Well, you could run: > > apt purge unattended-upgrades > > Somewhat less drastic: > > systemctl [stop|disable] unattended-upgrades > > (Both, of course, as root.) > > -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > >
