fwupd-refresh.service

Message on the day integration is used to display the availability of updates when connecting to a remote console.

It has two elements:

• Automatic firmware metadata refresh
• Message of the day display

This uses a systemd timer to run on a regular cadence. To enable this, run:

  systemctl enable fwupd-refresh.timer

The service has a timeout of 5 minutes (300 seconds) to prevent it from hanging indefinitely if network conditions are poor or if the metadata download stalls.

Motd display is dependent upon the availability of the update-motd snippet consumption service such as pam_motd.

To enable a proxy, set the systemd global environment in /etc/systemd/system.conf so all the systemd child processes have the proxy settings applied:

[Manager]

DefaultEnvironment=http_proxy=“http://internal.corp:3128/ ”https_proxy=“http://internal.corp:3128/”

<fwupdmgr(1)> <fwupd.conf(5)>