Hi Thanks for your help and time. I really appreciate it.
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 3:01 PM > From: l0f...@tuta.io > To: "Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > > NB: You do not need `sudo` here. > Noted. > Can you provide us with the output of the following commands? > Output of crontab -l No crontab for username Output of sudo crontab -l No crontab for root Output of cat /etc/crontab # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, # that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | .------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ... # | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat # | | | | | # * * * * * user-name command to be executed 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) # Output of ls -l /etc/cron.* /etc/cron.d: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285 May 19 2019 anacron /etc/cron.daily: total 32 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 311 May 19 2019 0anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1478 May 12 2020 apt-compat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 355 Dec 29 2017 bsdmainutils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 384 Dec 31 2018 cracklib-runtime -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1187 Apr 19 2019 dpkg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 377 Aug 28 2018 logrotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1123 Feb 10 2019 man-db -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249 Sep 27 2017 passwd /etc/cron.hourly: total 0 /etc/cron.monthly: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313 May 19 2019 0anacron /etc/cron.weekly: total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 312 May 19 2019 0anacron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 813 Feb 10 2019 man-db Output of dpkg -l | grep -i apt ii apt 1.8.2.3 amd64 commandline package manager ii apt-config-icons 0.12.5-1 all APT configuration snippet to enable icon downloads ii apt-listchanges 3.19 all package change history notification tool ii apt-utils 1.8.2.3 amd64 package management related utility programs ii laptop-detect 0.16 all system chassis type checker ii libapt-inst2.0:amd64 1.8.2.3 amd64 deb package format runtime library ii libapt-pkg5.0:amd64 1.8.2.3 amd64 package management runtime library ii libatk-adaptor:amd64 2.30.0-5 amd64 AT-SPI 2 toolkit bridge ii libmjpegutils-2.1-0 1:2.1.0+debian-5 amd64 MJPEG capture/editing/replay and MPEG encoding toolset (library) ii libmpeg2encpp-2.1-0 1:2.1.0+debian-5 amd64 MJPEG capture/editing/replay and MPEG encoding toolset (library) ii libmplex2-2.1-0 1:2.1.0+debian-5 amd64 MJPEG capture/editing/replay and MPEG encoding toolset (library) ii libopencore-amrnb0:amd64 0.1.3-2.1+b2 amd64 Adaptive Multi Rate speech codec - shared library ii libopencore-amrwb0:amd64 0.1.3-2.1+b2 amd64 Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband speech codec - shared library ii libpcap0.8:amd64 1.8.1-6 amd64 system interface for user-level packet capture ii python-apt-common 1.8.4.3 all Python interface to libapt-pkg (locales) ii python3-apt 1.8.4.3 amd64 Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.84.6 amd64 Graphical package manager ii task-laptop 3.53 all laptop