package updates

[Juanjo Bermúdez]

Hi, 

I have installed OSSEC and it reports me sometimes that some packages are being installed while I'm not connected to the server. I have an image with Ubuntu 14.04. I remember that I had to install some software so that Google auto-updated things, but I'm not sure if I understood it right. Is it normal that my server installs packages while I'm not connected? Nobody else, in theory, has access to the server. Today it installed GStreamer that doesn't seem in any relation with administering Google Cloud services.

[Paul Nash]

It is likely that you are seeing the effect of automatic upgrades that the operating system performs. In general it's our belief that operating systems in a cloud environment should be configured to automatically update in order to obtain the latest security patches. Below is a Google link towards how you might be able to confirm that auto updating is turned on, and perhaps somewhere in there is info about a log file that might record the actions being performed on your VM (I'm not certain such a log exists, but I wouldn't be surprised). Note: I doubt this is Google per se, but we do ask that our vendors enable auto-updating as a rule.

https://www.google.com/#q=ubuntu%20automatic%20updates

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Juanjo Bermúdez <juanj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, 

I have installed OSSEC and it reports me sometimes that some packages are being installed while I'm not connected to the server. I have an image with Ubuntu 14.04. I remember that I had to install some software so that Google auto-updated things, but I'm not sure if I understood it right. Is it normal that my server installs packages while I'm not connected? Nobody else, in theory, has access to the server. Today it installed GStreamer that doesn't seem in any relation with administering Google Cloud services.

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