how often do you update/upgrade

AdamM

What do you think of a conjob that runs each day that simply does this

apt-get -y update
apt-get -y upgrade

WSS

make it -t unstable dist-upgrade

Janevski

I update usually if i install a new package from repo.

I upgrade only if i must.

I prefer clean new installs (from time to time) over upgrades, but still they have to be justified.

varwww

Cron daily. Sends an email to me about the updates.

CUTA

I received the notification from the server "2 Ubuntu package update(s) "
sent by apticron as it supposed to do. meaning I could successfully test what I mentioned earlier.

@Shigawire said:

@CUTA said:

@Shigawire said:
You what? You guys do run apt-get upgrade via Cron? Doesn't that break everything you run once in a while?

It says that on the console only the stable updates are used.

After using this command which installs the "unattended-upgrades" package in the system to auto updates the packages.
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

Use this to configure "unattended-upgrades" package to instruct.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

Then it says this implying only the stable updates are installed.

I didn't test to see this works, because I started using my first vps a couple of days ago.

Thanks for the insights!

Neoon

Auto upgrade can kill your Server in the worst case, better check for Updates, confirm its working and you can patch it.

Because I am lazy, I did developed FirePatch:

https://github.com/Ne00n/FirePatch

Basically deploys a User with has permissions to run updates on your box and you can do it with a single click. Easy.