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apt-daily-upgrade.timer updates

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Debian 9

Linode 12GB

Noticed the following on the console when setting up a new Debian 9 server.

systemd[1]: apt-daily-upgrade.timer: Adding 24min 42.662754s random time.
systemd[1]: apt-daily-upgrade.timer: Adding 26min 11.865998s random time.
systemd[1]: apt-daily-upgrade.timer: Adding 32min 37.982157s random time.
systemd[1]: apt-daily-upgrade.timer: Adding 46min 38.526608s random time.

Seems strange that it is adding time by tens of minutes each time up and down.

Not familiar with the service.

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IINM, what that's doing is picking a random time between 6AM and 7AM local time to run a daily apt-get upgrade. It's not adding tens of minutes each time, it's adding those tens of minutes to 6AM each time. eg first time is 06:24:42, next is 06:26:11, then 06:32:37 and finally 06:46:38

Thanks…wasn't sure what it was doing.

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