Simple cron job to update host file with spam block list

hosts_update.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Simple cron job to update host file with spam block list
# /etc/cron.daily/hosts_update.sh

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts -O /tmp/hosts

if ! cmp /tmp/hosts /etc/hosts >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  mv /tmp/hosts /etc/hosts
else
  rm /tmp/hosts
fi

# Restart your system's network daemon to pick up new changes
# This can vary by distro! You may want to change this!
systemctl restart systemd-networkd

Nice, I guess I just need to add this file to /etc/cron.daily to be run by anacron

I would still add service network-manager restart to be sure dns cache is cleaned up

good callout @jfoclpf ! I'll update this with a note