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
  • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    381·
    1 day ago

    Every night at ~ 12-1am

    unattended updates / transactional-update are awesome.

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

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      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…

      • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours 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

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      This is the way! At least install security upgrades nightly using unattended-upgrades and reboot from time to time to get the latest Kernel version.

    • gopher@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 day 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.