Norton LiveUpdate via chron?

From: Sara Leavitt <saral_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 11:49:38 PDT

Hi MAGNet,

Is anyone running Norton LiveUpdate via chron on an OS X server? We
have a server with no video card and Symantec says (see below) you
can't do the LiveUpdate via the command line. Running via
"unsupported" chron seems to be our only convenient choice.

-Sara

>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:29:17 -0500
>From: symantec_support@ecemail.ece.com
>Subject: RE:LiveUpdate [#1920343]
>To: saral@berkeley.edu
>
>
>Hello Sara,
>
>Thank you for contacting Symantec Online Technical Support.
>
>LiveUpdate cannot be run directly from the command line; the
>application is designed to run via the Mac OS X GUI. However, you
>can schedule LiveUpdate to run at a specific time. This can be done
>by either temporarily connecting a monitor to the machine in
>question and using Norton Scheduler. Or, since Norton Scheduler
>works with cron, you could create a crontab. However, this later
>process is not supported by Symantec.
>
>Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bryan Chaney
Symantec Authorized Technical Support

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