autoupdate cron not working

smurfexxeee

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hi im trying to autoupdate linux with a cron job but it doesnt seem to to work. can anyone tell me why?
 

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autoupdt needs execute permissions.
Code:
sudo chmod +x /etc/cron.hourly/autoupdt
Depending on what distribution you use you can probably configure it somewhere without having to create a cronjob.
 
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i tried the code you gave to make it runable but it still doenst work ps im using linux mint
 

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Try running it as a crontab job instead of using cron.hourly, does it run then?
 

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