<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In my case, I uninstall the unattended-upgrades package as soon as I install Ubuntu or Xubuntu LTS on a machine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Why? Because when upgrades are unattended, things can happen without being scheduled, such as restarting Varnish and invalidating all the cache in it, or causing some downtime when MySQL is restarted, or in a worst case scenario, something fails to restart and then there is an extended downtime if you are on the road. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What is the alternative?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The apticron package.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It emails you when updates are available, and you choose the time to install them manually off hours, or on weekends. </div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The emails get sent to "root", so I set up forwarding from root to my regular email in Postfix, using a <a href="http://virtual.cf">virtual.cf</a> file. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 1:06\u202fAM Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net" target="_blank">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 08:56:07PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> I tried NixOS as my daily driver and gave up because I wanted<br>
> a working system with unattended upgrades.<br>
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Unless I'm missing something, both Debian and Ubuntu have the<br>
unattended-upgrades package. No Nix required.<br>
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- Chris</blockquote></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><br></div></div>
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