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Need to auto update my system starting from 00.05 to 3.00 am

Asked by john ziegler on 2011-04-26

I am trying to use Gnome-schedule to schedule the download and installation of system updates at midnight because I have Hughesnet and it does not count against my download allotment if I do it from midnight to 3am. I thought I had it set up right and I used launchupdate.sh as the command to start the update manager at 00:05 in the morning but it did not start. Is that the right command? Is there a better way to schedule the updates?

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Last query:: 2011-04-26

Last reply:: 2011-04-27

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said on 2011-04-26:

The update process requires you to enter the password when it runs. How did you craft that script in order to avoid being there sitting at the computer at 00:05 and typing the password?

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john ziegler (zieglerjb3) said on 2011-04-27:

I didn't. I forgot about that part. I guess that is why it did not run. I am not even sure what executable file to use to start update manager from any type of scheduler. I have since installed fcron, which uninstalled Gnome-scheduler, but I don't see it in the applications menu and I don't know how to get to it. I just want a way to schedule system updates at midnight so I won't run into download restrictions from Hughesnet. If you could explain how to do that with cron or any other way, it would be very helpful. I am not sure how to right the script to do this or where to put it. Cron sounds very powerful but I have not learned how to use it correctly, yet.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said on 2011-04-27:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+question/137694