Keeping Your Ubuntu Up-to-date

To automatically get your Ubuntu up-to-date with the latest upgrades, its a nice idea to place apt-get in crontab.

This can be done as follows:


1. sudo crontab -e
copy this into the file.

30 22   *   *   *    /update-script


2. sudo vim /update-script
and paste this in the file

echo "***************************************" >> /tmp/update.log
date >> /tmp/update.log
echo "......................................." >> /tmp/update.log
apt-get update >> /tmp/update.log
apt-get -y -q --force-yes upgrade >> /tmp/update.log


The first step adds an entry in crontab which will run a script called update-script every day at 10:30PM

The second step is to create the update-script which updates all software in your system. The log of the updates is appended in the file placed in /tmp/update.log.