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  • Doesn't work -- see section 1. Disable the systemd task in the question's text. But thanks anyway for the suggestion! :-) Commented Oct 10, 2016 at 20:48
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    disable and mask a service is not the same. mask create a Link to /dev/null. ls -al /etc/systemd/system/ | grep alsa lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 1 13:17 alsa-init.service -> /dev/null the Data is empty. Commented Oct 10, 2016 at 21:23
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    i get rid unattended upgrade sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades and forbit it. So the status of unit apt-daily.service is dead. Commented Oct 11, 2016 at 11:56
  • Hi @Bahamut thanks for your efforts! The question, however, is how to disable apt-daily.service from a cloud-init script and before it starts after VM reboot: this means: (1) it must be done non-interactively, (2) it must be done before apt-daily.service fires for the first time. (If my understanding of systemd is correct, (2) cannot actually be accomplished as cloud-init and apt-daily run concurrently -- see my own reply for more.) Commented Oct 11, 2016 at 14:14
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    I tried this on a normal physical machine (i.e. not a VM) and can confirm it doesn't work. You need to at also stop the timer: systemctl stop apt-daily.timer; systemctl disable apt-daily.timer Commented Aug 6, 2017 at 7:01