I'm retreading here, but I haven't had time to play with this again until
now. And with a new security update out late last week, I really want to get
this working.
Both labs of clients have http://(my ip address):8088/ set. Here's the
results for "defaults":
$defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
{
WebIconDatabaseDirectoryDefaultsKey = "~/Library/Icons";
WebKitDefaultFontSize = 11;
}
$sudo defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate "http://(my IP address):8088/"
2005-09-26 14:47:50.240 defaults[393]
Rep argument is not a dictionary
Defaults have not been changed.
I'm thinking I'm missing an argument somewhere for writing a new default
server location? Due to other problems I'm having (namely with DreamWeaver
and its activation hassles) I'm really close to reimaging one of the labs
anyway, but I'd still like to have this working.
Thanks for all your help.
-John
On 9/14/05 12:25 PM, "Matt Rosenberg" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Phil Graham wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
> sudo defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate "http://
> your.update.server:8088/"
>
> 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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