DigitalOcean VM - In Ubuntu (16.04.2) I used the “dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades” command, but I get this return “update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults” 1- How do I fix this issue so updates install automatically? 2- How do I ins…

That warning does not mean that automatic updates are not working.

@pfaffman I know this isn’t a Linux forum, but do you know to check automatic updates are happening and how to check manually?

Hey, @mhwebee , since you asked me specifically, I’ll answer, but I, using a tablet and not a real computer… The simple, it’s not a Linux forum, way is to wait a few days and log in again. In a while you should get a message saying that there are x updates and zero of them are security updates. Just…

The “message of the day” (“motd”), which is what indicates whether there are packages that need updating, or the system needs to be rebooted, or whatever, is dynamically generated on Ubuntu systems at login, via the update-motd(5) system, which is in turn invoked by pam_motd.so during login (unless …

Check this way to do for all repos. GitHub - abhigenie92/unattended_upgrades_repos: Generates system-specific repositories to be added in configuration file for silently updating all packages via unattended upgrades. · GitHub

Alternately, don’t use a huge number of third-party repos on your production servers… software packages are not pokemon, there is no need to catch them all.

The script is intended for PCs mostly. Thanks :slight_smile:

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