Re: Norton LiveUpdate via chron?

At 12:07 -0700 2004-07-26, Aron Roberts wrote:
>At 11:49 -0700 2004-07-26, Sara Leavitt wrote:
>Is anyone running Norton LiveUpdate via chron on an OS X server?
>
> 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
>...
>>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.

   A brief follow-up: some of this benefit (relative to the Symantec
scheduler) accrues because the author launches his script via
'anacron', rather than cron:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/anacron

   http://anacron.sourceforge.net/
   (explanation of how anacron and cron complement one another)

   http://www.alastairs-place.net/anacron.html
   (anacron for OS X)

   Also, at a first glance, there may be a discrepancy between a
message his script outputs ("under 30 days") versus his 'mtime'
command (7 days) ...

   Finally, be sure to note the customization instructions he provides
with the script.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Mon Jul 26 12:25:42 2004