Re: Norton LiveUpdate via chron?

Hi Sara,

At 11:49 -0700 2004-07-26, Sara Leavitt wrote:
>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.

   As is so often the case, a Google search turned up links to someone
who's done this:

   http://www.joshie.com/~jlevitsk/blog/archives/000058.html

   echoed at:

   http://www.foist.org/print.php?sid=5
   and
   http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040215184551154

   From the macosxhints article, here's why the author says he is
using cron to invoke LiveUpdate, rather than Symantec's own
scheduler. He's not using a headless server, but has other reasons
for doing so:

>Authored by: LeeH on Mon, Feb 23 '04 at 12:55PM
>I think this can also be accomplished via the Scheduler included in
>Systemworks. You can set it up to do an update daily, weekly, or
>monthly at a specified time.
>...
>Authored by: jlevitsk on Wed, Mar 3 '04 at 09:06PM
>However the scheduler does per user crontabs which does not work
>well in a corp environment. Also the scheduler does not check for
>network connectivity so it will kick off LiveUpdate even if you have
>no internet connection. With my cron job it will run every 7 days
>even if a user is not logged on.

   I haven't personally tried this ...

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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