Comment 7 for bug 2022825

*I turn off the ¨timer¨ service and the ¨news¨ service.*
*i disable them with systemctl:*

*systemctl disable "the services"*

*then i stop to get the error.*

*the method you show me is not working, i try that as well.*

*It was a long time ago, I already solved this issue a couple of
months ago.*

*Regards,*
Nadav Levi Yahel
*Locksmith Unit®*
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 1:40 AM Tong Sun <email address hidden> wrote:

> > The documentation tells users how to disable the service without
> having to know systemd service interfaces.
>
> Which is:
>
> > /etc/default/motd-news has an ENABLED=1 setting that if set to 0 will
> turn off this functionality.
>
> And this is not working, as reported by Nadav.
> My modt keep getting errors when i run commend "systemctl status" too.
> Mine is:
>
>
> $ sudo systemctl status motd-news.service
> Ã motd-news.service - Message of the Day
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.service; static)
> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-09-24 12:40:01 EDT;
> 6h ago
> TriggeredBy: â motd-news.timer
> Docs: man:update-motd(8)
> Process: 375394 ExecStart=/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force
> (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
> Main PID: 375394 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
> CPU: 9ms
>
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[375394]: motd-news.service: Failed to locate
> executable /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission>
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[375394]: motd-news.service: Failed at step
> EXEC spawning /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permissio>
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=203/EXEC
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-code'.
> Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.
>
> $ sudo journalctl -u motd-news.service
> Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
> Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=203/EXEC
> Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-code'.
> Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[52283]: motd-news.service: Failed to locate
> executable /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission denied
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[52283]: motd-news.service: Failed at step EXEC
> spawning /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission denied
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited,
> code=exited, status=203/EXEC
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-code'.
> Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.
> . . .
>
>
> $ ls -l /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5023 2021-10-15 06:06
> /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
>
>
> How did you disable the timer, Nadav?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2022825
>
> Title:
> motd-news.timer trigger motd-news.service even if disable
>
> Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Hello, guys, how are you?
> I notice motd-news.timer activate motd-news.service even when
> motd-new.service disable.
>
> I follow this doc's from UBUNTU:
> https://ubuntu.com/legal/motd
>
> /etc/default/motd-news has an ENABLED=1 setting that to 0 for disable.
>
> It's not working too…
>
> When you reboot the server and put
> sudo systemctl status motd-news.service
>
> Service look dead. (disable)
> but he got trigger by motd-news.timer after 10 - 20 minutes (screenshot):
> https://ibb.co/yXTpzGq
>
> if you look on the screenshot, you will see:
> TriggeredBy: ● motd-news.timer
>
> I can disable the motd-news.timer service, but i don't know if it will
> affect other services of UBUNTU.
> Anyway It's still a bug, even if i disable the timer service, it's not
> should be this way.
>
> Happened on 2 Different machines of UBUNTU 22.04 (Google Cloud
> Platform)
>
> Be happy for your recommendation before i disable the motd-new.timer
> with systemctl.
>
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