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Phydoux

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Registered: 2020-03-02

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[SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

So I had a bad mishap because of an auto update timer I had set. I'd like to disable it or get rid of it altogether. This is what I've tried.

systemctl disable update.timer

and sudo systemctl disable update.timer

Both say that the authentication has been complete but the timer is still active when I view the timer list with systemctl list-timers. How do I get rid of this timer?

Last edited by Phydoux (2024-09-11 15:39:25)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

disable != stop.

Last edited by Trilby (2020-04-21 00:33:19)

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zenbum

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

Disable prevents it from starting at boot. You also need to stop it:
    systemctl stop update.timer

You can do both in one step:
    systemctl disable --now update.timer

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

Uninstall the dangerous package pacman-auto-update the install script that auto enables the timer will stop the timer
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … uto-update

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

Oh dear god.  That package is horrible in so many ways.

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Phydoux

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

    systemctl disable --now update.timer

That worked! Thanks!

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Disable / get rid of a timer

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the thread title.

Not a packaging/pacman issue, moving to NC