On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Harald Wagener wrote:

LaunchAgents run in user context. Move your launchd job to /Library/LaunchDaemons to get it run as root.

I'd read and understood that /System/Library/Launch* allowed for processes to be run as root, regardless of the user context (hence why OS level processes are started from there), where /Library/Launch* would run based on the user context. But I tested your suggestion, and got my normal errors... 6/27/12 12:28:10.418 PM com.spupload: override rw-r--r-- root/wheel for /Library/LaunchAgents/com.spupload.plist? (y/n [n]) not overwritten 6/27/12 12:28:10.511 PM com.spupload: override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel for /usr/local/sbin/spupload.sh? (y/n [n]) not overwritten On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Watchman Monitoring wrote:

Seeing the script, or more importantly, how you're calling it, would be helpful.

Also, how are you validating the contents of what you've downloaded?

Right now i'm not too worried about validating, but I intend to do a checksum. I'm just trying to get it installed right now. The portion of the script that is the upgrade function at the moment... #Check spupload version number, and download and install the latest update if it's newer remoteVersion=$(curl -s http://my.server.com/profiles/version.html) if [ "$spuploadVersion" -lt "$remoteVersion" ] then cd /tmp/ curl -C - -O http://my.server.com/profiles/latest.zip unzip -d latest latest.zip mv -f latest/com.spupload.plist /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ chmod 644 /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cnn.spupload.plist mv -f latest/spupload.sh /usr/local/sbin/ launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.cnn.spupload.plist rm -rf latest* exit fi Previously the script looked something like this which used installer, and returned similar permission issues since the installer requires root permissions. #Check spupload version number, and download and install the latest update if it's newer remoteVersion=$(curl -s http://my.server.com/profiles/version.html) if [ "$spuploadVersion" -lt "$remoteVersion" ] then cd /tmp/ curl -C - -O http://my.server.com/profiles/latest.zip unzip latest.zip installer -pkg spupload.pkg -tgt /. rm -rf latest* exit fi Here is the plist loaded from /System/Library/LaunchAgent/. It's run every 7 hours, and runs the script in /usr/local/sbin/... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.spupload</string> <key>Program</key> <string>/usr/local/sbin/spupload.sh</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/sbin/spupload.sh</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>ServiceDescription</key> <string>System Profiler upload tool</string> <key>StartInterval</key> <integer>25200</integer> </dict> </plist> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com