Ubuntu 22 Apt Auto-Restart Services

Permanently Enabling Auto-Restart

The trouble is with the needrestart command, which is part of the apt-get upgrade process in Ubuntu now (specifically 22.04). By default, this is set to "interactive" mode, which causes the interruption of scripts.

To change this behavior, we can edit the /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf file

sudo nano /etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf

Change the line:

#$nrconf{restart} = 'i';

to

$nrconf{restart} = 'a';

Enabling Auto-Restart for a single upgrade in a script

sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get upgrade -y