Re: Scripting in a Multiple User Environment
Re: Scripting in a Multiple User Environment
- Subject: Re: Scripting in a Multiple User Environment
- From: Daniel Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:30:47 -0500
Guy,
Use "Energy Saver" to wake up the computer and "iDo Script Scheduler" to trigger
your script. Download the latest version (1.1.1) from
<
http://www.sophisticated.com/>. Instead of version 1.0 included on the Mac Install
CD.
I'm doing the same thing on 60 Macs at a college in North Carolina and it's working
fine. However, I don't use Multiple Users so I've not tested it in that
environment.
Good Luck,
--Dan
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From: "Guy F. Colvin" <email@hidden>
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Subject: Scripting in a Multiple User Environment
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:27:04 -0500
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Hi,
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I manage several separate small labs with about 10 Macs each (running OS 9.1)
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where users are logged in with a generic lab username and password. They are
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set to log out after 15 minutes. The machines stay on throughout the week and
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are restarted once over the weekend. I would like to execute a script every
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night (afterhours) that would clean out any documents and changes that daytime
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users have made. I've already created a script that will do this at startup -
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however, I really want it to run at night.
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I've found no way to get such a script to execute when no user is logged on
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(in other words, when the MU log-in window is displayed). Is there any way
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this can be done? In the worst case, I would be interested in a script that,
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at a specific time, would log in to the owner's account, run my "cleanup"
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script, and then log back out.
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Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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-Guy F. Colvin