Because cron and unattended-upgrades don’t work
WSL is a Great Tool for the Windows Development Environment
The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup.
I’m a big fan of WSL and Windows Terminal. I have direct access to a Linux shell from my Windows desktop, allowing me to utilize the dev and system tools of Linux without messing with a VM. But sometimes it just simple things. Windows has a host of good shell commands, and PowerShell is flexible, but sometimes I just want to use dig.
One issue with WSL is that, like any Linux distro, it needs updates. When Baron Samedit was disclosed, I needed to update my sudo just like any other Linux user. But setting up a cron job to schedule updates isn’t really feasible; Since there is no boot process, the cron daemon is not launched. If you make it run it only runs while the shell is open. The same goes for unattended-upgrades, no cron daemon.
So What Do?
Have Bash.exe run updates outside the shell. You need to allow apt-get to run without sudo, and setup a scheduled task, so there are a couple steps.
In your bash shell, type sudo visudo and add the following to the bottom of the file:
