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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      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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        • stephenw10S Offline
          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
            last edited by

            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
                last edited by

                Why automate something that has updates once a year typical?

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                  chpalmer @netblues
                  last edited by

                  @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
                    last edited by

                    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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