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How often do you update software on your servers? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Every night at ~ 12-1am

unattended updates / transactional-update are awesome.

Stuff has been running for years, and it's still up to date.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Once per week for me. Works really great on openSUSE MicroOS. Had to roll back maybe a couple of times the last few years.

    That said, I run basically everything in containers so the OS installed things are lean.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 2 points 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

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