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Or asked the other way around: How long do you keep your servers running without installing any software updates?

update means something like

sudo dnf update

or something ....

apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
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[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn't in there.

I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn't auto-restart without my permission...

[โ€“] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

unattended-upgrades doesn't do that unless you explicitly specify Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; in the config. Check /usr/share/doc/unattended-upgrades/README.md.gz

The main configuration file is /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, maybe you put your config in the wrong place?

here is mine