On Monday 06 February 2017 13:54:11 Brian wrote: > On Mon 06 Feb 2017 at 13:19:00 +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > The unattended-upgrades was not installed on my Debian jessie system. > > After upgrading to Debian stretch, the package unattended-upgrades got > > installed. 'reverse-depends unattended-upgrades' [1] did not make me any > > wiser. There must be a gap of my apt knowledge. Can anyone shed light on > > this please? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00117.html
Can it cope with a back-log? Has anyone tried? I can't suck-it-and-see on any of my own systems because they are all up to date. Two of my clients' systems are horribly out of date; Teamviewer is playing up; I haven't sussed port forwarding via that router and on a Dynamic IP, and I am having difficulty getting physical access. I am sure that I could talk one of them through installing unattended-upgrades if it could then sort out the much-needed security updates. The rest can wait for the other problems to be solved!! Lisi