how to disable apt-daily.timer

apt-daily-timer-disable.md

how to disable apt-daily.timer

$ systemctl stop apt-daily.timer
$ systemctl disable apt-daily.timer
$ systemctl mask apt-daily.service
$ systemctl daemon-reload

check current status

$ systemctl status apt-daily.timer
$ systemctl status apt-daily.service

c.f.

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/315502/how-to-disable-apt-daily-service-on-ubuntu-cloud-vm-image

Helpful!

Thanks - it is sad that plain Linux has come to this.

Thank you, still active on Ubuntu 20.04. This is really some BS. This thing should never be on by default, why update at the cost of hours and hours of downtime !?