Hi
Did you set the SoftwareUpdate Preference in WGM to tell the
clients
where to look.
Software Update was a disappointment. I was hoping for
something like
WSUS which pushes out updates instead of just a local cache which
still
needs SoftwareUpdate to be run on the workstation and needs to admin
password for the install.
Also its not Proxy aware so I had to install Authoxy before I
could get
it to talk to apple.
It makes things quicker but it could have been much ,much better
Phil
It's incredibly easy to automate it with cron (or to do it manually
on multiple machines with Remote Desktop). Software Update has a
command-line equivalent.
softwareupdate -i -a ; shutdown -r now
That will install all available updates and restart the computer.
softwareupdate must be run as root, so you have to put it in the
system crontab. The other issue is that softwareupdate, run as root,
ignores the setting from WGM. So you have to do, once on each machine:
That sets the preference for the root user too. Anyway, you can have
softwareupdate run every night at a set time on your machines, and
the effect is the same as the thing on Windows. Your users should be
aware that any unsaved work will be lost when the machine restarts.
Matt
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