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title: Message Of The Day Integration
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% fwupd-refresh.service(5) {{PACKAGE_VERSION}} | Message Of The Day Integration

NAME
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**fwupd-refresh.service** — message of the day integration.

DESCRIPTION
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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

NOTES
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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/>

SEE ALSO
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`fwupdmgr(1)`
`fwupd.conf(5)`
