Automatic Security Updates on Ubuntu.

There are different options for automatically updating your server. At this article we will use the unattended-upgrades package.

We will start with installing the unattended-upgrades package.

kok@fhome:~$ sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

After installing the unattended-upgrades package we need to add  the text below to the  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic file.

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists “1″;
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages “1″;
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval “5″;
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade “1″;

After this modification your system will install the security updates automatically. You can see the details of unattended-upgrades from the log files  /var/log/unattended-upgrades/ folder.

For more information about this subject you can check the Ubuntu wiki page.

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