I got it to accept the new setting for
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate but it still seems to want to
go to apple.com to check, NOT my network server. It didn't seem to accept
the change for the cli version at all (is there some way to check it)?
-John
On 9/26/05 3:08 PM, "Matt Rosenberg" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2005, at 12:57 PM, John Buell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> For this particular preference, you have to use different defaults
> commands depending on how you're going to do updates. If you're going
> to use the GUI app, do the following:
>
> defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate
> CatalogURL "http://..../";
>
> Note that there is NOT a ".plist" at the end of the
> com.apple.SoftwareUpdate. To verify that your setting was written, do:
>
> defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate (again,
> no .plist). If you simply do 'defaults read com.apple.SoftwareUpdate'
> it never shows the CatalogURL item.
>
> If you're going to use the command line tool (which will enable doing
> the updates remotely), do:
>
> sudo defaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL "http://..../";
>
> That writes the preference only for the root user. Since the
> softwareupdate command has to be run as root, that takes care of it.
>
> Matt
>
>
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