How to disable eos-update-notifier check after every login or check only on fridays?

Kiernan · November 4, 2021, 11:00am

I have configured a weekly schedule in the settings, but nonetheless notifications appear every time I start up the system.

Ideally, I want it only to notify me on Friday’s nights, or to disable eos-update-notifier completely, and I will manually update every Friday.

Kiernan · November 4, 2021, 11:16am

After reading man systemd.time, inside eos-update-notifier configuration, in “First check after system startup”, I wrote:
Fri *-*-* 21:00:00
Maybe it will work.

Bryanpwo · November 4, 2021, 11:19am

The notifier rechecks after every new boot, the schedule only is effective when the machine isn’t turned off, but goes into sleep mode.

There’s no workaround for that, unfortunately.

Kiernan · November 4, 2021, 11:20am

I understand, thanks Bryan!

joekamprad · November 4, 2021, 11:35am

OnStartupSec=
in ~/.config/systemd/user/eos-update-notifier.timer can be removed so it will not do that anymore.
I am not sure if we have something to stop this from config tools, but removing it manually should work.

As it is set to Persistent=true the OnCalender will stay active i think?

wordler · November 4, 2021, 11:40am

So in Schedule that would remove “First check after system startup” but retain “Check period”?

joekamprad · November 4, 2021, 1:26pm

systemctl --user status eos-update-notifier.timer                                                            130 ↵
● eos-update-notifier.timer - Run EOS update notifier periodically
     Loaded: loaded (/home/joekamprad/.config/systemd/user/eos-update-notifier.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (waiting) since Thu 2021-11-04 14:22:13 CET; 1min 57s ago
    Trigger: Thu 2021-11-04 15:00:00 CET; 35min left
   Triggers: ● eos-update-notifier.service

Nov 04 14:22:13 UNGEHEUER64 systemd[1529]: Started Run EOS update notifier periodically

does status give after commenting the line…(after reboot)

manuel · November 4, 2021, 3:14pm

You can edit file
~/.config/systemd/user/eos-update-notifier.timer

To make it check updates on Fridays, write your time spec to OnCalendar:

  OnCalendar=Fri *-*-* 21:00:00

and remove (or comment out with # as the first character on the line) settings

  OnStartupSec=30 seconds
  Persistent=true

(If that is your preferred schedule, remember not to overwrite the file with the tools. A good idea is to backup the file just in case.)

Finally, to activate your changes, run command

  systemctl --user daemon-reload