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Re: Which .plist controls automatic software update checks?





On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Guillaume Gete wrote:


Le 24 janv. 08 à 18:52, Stranathan, Dan a écrit :

It seems in fact you're right, I went too fast reading the options.  
However, I managed to find out how it works :

Switching on or off this option is performed in ~/Library/ 
Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.scheduler.<MACADDRESS>.plist. The  
dictionary "Timer" in it has a property "date" which is normally the  
next time the check will be performed. If you switch the schedule  
off in System Preferences, the date is changed to 01/01/01... Thus  
the next check will never be performed.

The "defaults" command to be used to perform this change manually is  
an exercise left for the reader :-)


Perhaps I'm missing something, but why use defaults?  I'd use  
"softwareupdate --schedule off" instead.



Good call Ted, but is that a global command for all users or localized to each user domain?

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