Setting up Automatic Updates for Ubuntu
Keeping your system up to date is the single most important way to prevent security and malware issues. Ubuntu provides nice tools for maintaining your system, but if you manage it via a command line you may be used to seeing: 1 2 3 packages can be updated. 3 updates are security updates. This is the Ubuntu system notifying you that it noticed there are 3 packages that have updates available. This check is enabled by default and is part of the **update-motd** system. Some background on how this works will provide insight into the workings of Ubuntu and then we’ll talk about automating those updates. Background update-motd is a system program introduced in Ubuntu that allows for the...