Proper Way to Reboot via Bash/Crontab

[Somebody]

Hey folks, not really much of a need for a lot of support, but I thought I'd ask, just before implementing it.

If I want to reboot via bash/crontab, is it okay to just \sbin\reboot, or does that risk breaking things? Trying to automate the Ubuntu updates that require a reboot (with this particular server, a short downtime isn't a huge deal). Naturally, I'll schedule it for different times from the backup and app updates.

Thanks!

[james]

Hello @somebody and welcome to the Cloudron forum

There is no need for a custom crontab or bash script.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates

You can edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and enable the automatic reboot:

- //Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
+ Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";

and just to be sure restart the service with:

systemctl restart unattended-upgrades.service

With this change the system should automatically reboot.