[Macpartners] automate patch download & install

[David M. Templeton]

I've gotten scripts to run by making a text file named daily.local (or  
weekly.local or monthly.local) in the /etc folder owned by root.  It  
will run the commands in that file as root.

On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Duncan S Kincaid wrote:

> good point!
> to address this, our script will not run if any user but admin or root
> logged in.
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> On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Helen Rose wrote:
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>> On Jun 23, 2009, at 14:42 EDT, Duncan S Kincaid wrote:
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>>> you can write a shell script which runs as often as you like at
>>> whatever time of day you like (use launchd).
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>> Be careful. Make sure whoever uses the machines with this auto-
>> update knows that they need to save & log out else they could lose
>> open files.
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> duncan kincaid
> cron | mit school of architecture and planning
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