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-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix23
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix2
-rw-r--r--pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch11
3 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix b/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
index 39d1bf274bd..c6a001d30ee 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/system/earlyoom.nix
@@ -67,9 +67,19 @@ in
       notificationsCommand = mkOption {
         type = types.nullOr types.str;
         default = null;
-        example = "sudo -u example_user DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus notify-send";
         description = ''
-          Command used to send notifications.
+          This option is deprecated and ignored by earlyoom since 1.6.
+          Use <option>services.earlyoom.enableNotifications</option> instead.
+        '';
+      };
+
+      enableNotifications = mkOption {
+        type = types.bool;
+        default = false;
+        description = ''
+          Send notifications about killed processes via the system d-bus.
+          To actually see the notifications in your GUI session, you need to have
+          <literal>systembus-notify</literal> running as your user.
 
           See <link xlink:href="https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom#notifications">README</link> for details.
         '';
@@ -87,9 +97,13 @@ in
         message = "Both options in conjunction do not make sense"; }
     ];
 
+    warnings = optional (ecfg.notificationsCommand != null)
+      "`services.earlyoom.notificationsCommand` is deprecated and ignored by earlyoom since 1.6.";
+
     systemd.services.earlyoom = {
       description = "Early OOM Daemon for Linux";
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      path = optional ecfg.enableNotifications pkgs.dbus;
       serviceConfig = {
         StandardOutput = "null";
         StandardError = "syslog";
@@ -100,10 +114,11 @@ in
           ${optionalString ecfg.useKernelOOMKiller "-k"} \
           ${optionalString ecfg.ignoreOOMScoreAdjust "-i"} \
           ${optionalString ecfg.enableDebugInfo "-d"} \
-          ${optionalString (ecfg.notificationsCommand != null)
-            "-N ${escapeShellArg ecfg.notificationsCommand}"}
+          ${optionalString ecfg.enableNotifications "-n"}
         '';
       };
     };
+
+    environment.systemPackages = optional ecfg.enableNotifications pkgs.systembus-notify;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix
index 2e0f5ef7833..8233c065c2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = stdenv.lib.optionals withManpage [ pandoc installShellFiles ];
 
+  patches = [ ./fix-dbus-path.patch ];
+
   makeFlags = [ "VERSION=${version}" ];
 
   installPhase = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e1c10cf82f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/earlyoom/fix-dbus-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/kill.c
++++ b/kill.c
+@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static void notify(const char* summary, const char* body)
+     }
+     // Complete command line looks like this:
+     // dbus-send --system / net.nuetzlich.SystemNotifications.Notify 'string:summary text' 'string:and body text'
+-    execl("/usr/bin/dbus-send", "dbus-send", "--system", "/", "net.nuetzlich.SystemNotifications.Notify",
++    execlp("dbus-send", "dbus-send", "--system", "/", "net.nuetzlich.SystemNotifications.Notify",
+         summary2, body2, NULL);
+     warn("notify: exec failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+     exit(1);