On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Guillaume Gete wrote:
Le 24 janv. 08 à 18:52, Stranathan, Dan a écrit :
For the record, I checked the 10.5 ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/
com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.<MACADDRESS>.plist and it does NOT contain
the key for WHEN to check for software updates. Here are the 3 keys
it DOES contains:
AgreedToLicenseAgrement YES
AutomaticDownload NO
LaunchAppInBackground NO
Am I missing something here? The preference to set when (or if)
Software Update checks automatically seems to be elusive.
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 :-)
Remember too that PlistBuddy is now on the system by default as of
10.5! Yah!
