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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      You realise at the very least that would reboot your firewall at a random time when you might be in the middle of an important download etc?

      Steve

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        netgateuname @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10
        Right, I can take the downtime, but it wouldn't be at a random time if I can schedule it with cron for example.

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Well you could run pfSense-upgrade -y as a cron job but I highly recommend you don't! 😬

          Steve

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            oddussiben-3161
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            this is cool @stephenw10 thank you.

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              I'm still recommending you don't do that however cool it may be. 😉

              Steve

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                oddussiben-3161
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                its a test machine, appreciate your concern.

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                  inetquestion
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                  mkdir -p /tmp/upgrade && pfSense-upgrade -y | tee -a /tmp/upgrade/date +%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S-upgrade.log

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                    netblues @inetquestion
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                    Why automate something that has updates once a year typical?

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                      chpalmer @netblues
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                      @netblues said in Automatic updates:

                      Why automate something that has updates once a year typical?

                      Snapshots.

                      I like the concept because I like to update my test box daily. but I also like to watch it as it updates so automatic updates would be out for me just for that reason.

                      Triggering snowflakes one by one..
                      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                      • stephenw10S Offline
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Yeah, about the only place I would consider doing this would be a test box running 2.5 snapshots where I'm specifically testing new snapshot failures.

                        Steve

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                          serbus
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                          Hello!

                          https://forum.netgate.com/topic/137707/auto-update-check-checks-for-updates-to-base-system-packages-and-sends-email-alerts

                          John

                          Lex parsimoniae

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                            provels @serbus
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                            @serbus
                            Stupid server tricks! I love it!

                            Peder

                            MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                            BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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                              barrio603
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                              I have been running the cron update every other saturday at 1am and yet to have a problem.

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