How to disable / remove Notification Center 4.3.5.0728

[Cygon]

Same here. When I bought my NAS in 2017, the "App Center" was a blank slate. I installed Container Station and that's all I needed.

Now I have 6 other apps I don't want or use that I can't uninstall (License Center, Notification Center, Qboost, QTS SSL Certificate, Resource Monitor, SSD Profiling Tool). I would like to get rid of these. Plus the "Helpdesk" that I can at least uninstall again after it gets installed with each firmware update.

[Frustrated2020]

Me too. I should be able to remove ALL the crap I don't use or need.
I am a new user who only joined this forum to add my voice to the direction QNAP is going. Great hardware ruined by useless bloat. Synaptic is looking better and better.

[OneCD]

Synaptic is looking better and better.

Synaptic?

[jaysona]

I was on a conf. call earlier today, bored out of my skull as the topic was a drain-circling topic, so I decided to start poking around on one of my sacrificial NAS units.

What I found out so far about Notification Center.
/etc/init.d/nc.sh is a symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/etc/init.d/nc.sh

Notification Center is a QPKG app, which means it should be possible to remove it. Notification Center uses its own specific MariaDB (wtf QNAP?) so that needs to be dealt with and has some apache specific config file as well.

I have more than a few work things lined up my plate at the moment, so I am not sure when I'll be able to fully dive into getting rid of NC, but if someone else here wants to poke around their NAS to see what's up with NC, some of the areas of interest are:

/mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/etc/init.d/nc.sh
/etc/config/nc
/usr/local/sbin/ncd (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/ncd)
/usr/local/sbin/ncdb (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/ncdb)
/usr/local/sbin/nc (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/nc)
/usr/local/sbin/ncd (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/ncd)
/usr/local/sbin/nc_tool (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/nc_tool)
/usr/local/sbin/msgfmt (symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/usr/sbin/msgfmt)

and many more ......

It seems like most of the interesting stuff will be in /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/ which means that removing this unwanted bloatware may not be as difficult as some may have thought.

Of course, I feel I really should not have to write the following, but I will just the same.

If you don't know what you're doing with the innards of Linux, don't go poking around and changing things. If you feel like poking around and changing stuff, then by all means go for it. If, as part of the poking around and changing stuff your NAS gets messed up, that'll be your problem, not mine.

[Frustrated2020]

Synaptic is looking better and better.

Synaptic?

Meant Synology
Anything would be better right now. I'll be investigating other options when our current NAS' get to end of life or we get fed up with QNAP's "features"; which ever comes first!!

[tlenl]

I'm waiting too for someone able to remove this SO MUCH NEEDED application! eheh

Oh, and don't forget the SO LOVED Multimedia Console.

Yes, so beautiful if i want to be my NetworkAttachedSTORAGE a f....ing fast celeronN multimedia ON THE FLY converter

[xman1]

Has anyone removed this? Just looking for possible ramifications. Thread has been dormant for some time.

You can definitely shut down Notification Center using the init script, and I don't notice any negatives, but I am worried if I stop it from loading at all it will break something.

Another thing I want solved is the NAS is very SWAP happy. Running QVR Pro with 5 GB of free memory and it will still use 1GB of swap, so I have to disable swap too. This I can probably fix if I want to spend the time at it.

-X

[drakness]

use ssh to get into the nas

cd to

/etc/init.d/nc.sh is a symlink to /mnt/ext/opt/NotificationCenter/etc/init.d/

run the nc.d file

./nc.d force-stop

then to ensure that it does not start up after a reboot rename the init.d directory to somethink that is not init.d

cd ..
mv init.d init.d.dead

That stopped my notifications

[OneCD]

That stopped my notifications

Thanks and welcome to the forum.

[remainz]

Didnt work for me
but the file was called nc.sh* on my NAS
I still get endless Login admin fail notifications whatever rules I create and I really hoped that this would of worked

[Frustrated2020]

Synaptic is looking better and better.

Synaptic?

Meant Synology
Anything would be better right now. I'll be investigating other options when our current NAS' get to end of life or we get fed up with QNAP's "features"; which ever comes first!!

Just as a follow up. Additional IT funding has been received courtesy of our Government's "small business incentive" in response to the human malware.
All our QNAP NAS' are to be replaced with Synology units. I will take great pleasure in destroying these nagging "devices" as they are retired.

[jaysona]

Just as a follow up. Additional IT funding has been received courtesy of our Government's "small business incentive" in response to the human malware.
All our QNAP NAS' are to be replaced with Synology units. I will take great pleasure in destroying these nagging "devices" as they are retired.

A la Office Space printer-in-the-field scene?