Toby Corkindale <toby(a)dryft.net> writes:
things going wrong, esp. since automated security
updates are likely
to go through simultaneously on some VMs.
Not the case for unattended-upgrades -- they have a built in random
idler that defaults to an even distribution between 0 and 60 minutes
IIRC. The code is in /etc/cron.daily/apt and it's configured in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.