Is there a way to schedule when an OS update can be done and automatically reboot when finished?
I've had the Business update waiting for me for about 2 weeks now, and no good time I can interrupt my users (stupid Adobe may close the projects if it loses constant connection).
Yes, you can create a cron job (System: Settings: Cron).
Cheers
Maurice
Make sure your user are off during the automatic update
Taking your adobe example, if your user left it on, with a project ongoing , your update might make them lose some of it if not saved and closed ?
A network wide warning might be useful, the day before, and the very day, to tell user to save and close
OK, another stupid question. In the hours tab, it shows that I can set a time to start, I just want to make sure I don't cause a problem in the middle of the day.
I looked up the cron man pages, and on the crontab(5) it says that hours are 0-23, which makes sense and what I was looking for. But before I set this to enabled I want to make sure.
If I set the hour to 1 or 01, this is going to be 1:00 am, not 1:00pm (13:00), correct? I don't remember setting the system for 24 hour mode and don't see any checkbox to do this.
cron always uses the 24-hour format, like any sensible person or system. 😁
Cheers
Maurice
Thanks, going to give it a try tonight and hope that I can fix any issues in the morning. Not really expecting anything drastic to be wrong, and Fridays we don't have classes so not a lot of student work happening first thing in the morning.
Thanks again, got things done and going forward tasks will be easier. My only wish would be to have a run once checkbox, especially for the reboot job since I generally only reboot when needed.
You can (kind of) achieve this by setting the month and day of the month.
Thanks again, hadn't really thought of it that way. I'll look into longer term stuff, especially since there is another new update (Business license) that just hit today. I probably won't apply that update until next week.